I still remember how proud I felt watching my son try to do something good for others. I just never expected how quickly that moment would turn into something else entirely.
I, Diana, still remember the moment my son, Benjamin, looked up at me as if he had just found his purpose.
It was last week, right after our church announced the charity fair. Pastor Raymond had barely finished explaining that the money would go to struggling families when Benjamin grabbed my hand.
His eyes were bright in a way I'd not seen before.
The money would go to struggling families.
"Mom, can we bake cookies? Lots of them? The prettiest ones?" my son asked. "I want people to feel loved when they eat them."
I smiled, but I also hesitated. He was eight. Baking one batch was already a project.
"Are you sure that's what you want to do?"
Benjamin nodded so enthusiastically that it almost made me laugh.
And that was all it took.
"I want people to feel loved."
***
For the next three evenings, our kitchen turned into something else entirely.
Flour covered the counters. Sprinkles rolled into corners. Somehow, every bowl we owned ended up in the sink.
But Benjamin didn't slow down. He insisted on doing almost everything himself.
He mixed the dough carefully and pressed the cutters down into the dough, stars, hearts, even a few uneven circles that he refused to throw away.
"Those are special," he told me.
