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(Video above: WSFA reports on Josiah Duncan’s heartfelt gift to a homeless man)
A few weeks ago in Prattville, Alabama, 5-year-old Josiah Duncan learned for the first time what it means for someone to be homeless.
After noticing a particularly dirty man standing just inside the door of Waffle House as he entered the restaurant with his mom, young Josiah asked about his appearance.
“He’s homeless,” his mom, Ava Faulk, explained.
“What does that mean?” He asked.
“Well, he doesn’t have a house,” she told him.
Josiah rightly realized the man also did not have any food, and decided he was going to do something about.
Josiah asked his mom if they could buy the man a meal, which she agreed to do. He immediately sprang into action, asking the man to come sit down, which he did, and Josiah gave him a menu, “because you can’t order without one.”
He told the man he could order whatever he wanted, which, as it turns out, meant a healthy serving of bacon. But when the food arrived, Josiah jumped back in, because there was one more thing he just knew he had to do.
“I wanted to say the blessing with him,” Josiah recalled. In fact, he decided to belt the blessing out in the form of a song, which he sang with all of his heart.
“God our Father, God our Father, we thank you, we thank you, for our many blessings, for our many blessings, Amen, Amen,” he proclaimed.
The man broke down in tears, along with everyone else in the restaurant.
Matthew 25:35-40 is one of the most well-known passages in the Bible:
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’
5-year-old Josiah Duncan clearly understands the meaning of that passage better than most.
“(It) will be forever one of the greatest accomplishments as a parent I’ll ever get to witness,” his mom said.
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— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) December 3, 2014
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