HUGS
AND KISSES EVERY DAY

Topics: Children; Comfort; Cross; Drugs; Drunkenness; Family; Jesus Christ; Resurrection

References: Matthew 11:28–30; 19:13–15; 2 Corinthians 1:3–11

“The Little Girl,” a ballad sung by John Michael Montgomery, tells the sad story of a little girl who hid behind the couch while her drug-addicted mother and alcoholic father continually fought. They never went to church or spoke of the Lord, except in vain. The parents eventually died in a murder-suicide.

The State placed the child in a foster home where she got kisses and hugs every day. The foster parents took the little girl to Sunday school where she saw a picture of Jesus hanging on a cross. With a smile, the girl pointed to the man in the picture. “I don’t know his name,” the little girl said. “But I know he got off the cross, because he was there in my old house. He held me close to his side as I hid behind our couch the night that my parents died.”

—“The Little Girl,” written by Harley Allen