At the playground, Selah took up with a little girl right away, but I watched Etta Rose’s shoulders wilt when the big girls told her to go play with someone else.

She climbed down and leaned into me lonely, so I pleaded a silent prayer that The Comforter would send Et a friend.

I read another page of Abba’s Child by Brennan Manning, and looked up just in time to see her most favorite-of-all-time super hero approaching the monkey bars, cape flying like a vision.

She was over the moon, with no time for the child’s play of friendship. She only wanted to stare at him and read “his numbers” to me off his business card.

She is Abba’s child, and on this day when I asked Him to send her a friend, He sent Batman.

 

See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!

~ 1 John 3:1