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One woman writes: Our fourth grader celebrated his birthday on crutches, so he couldn’t carry the cupcakes into school without help. I asked our sixth-grader, Noah, to help his brother carry them in. I could,” he said, but

I’d prefer not to. ”Spotting a teaching moment, my husband asked Noah, What would Jesus do?” Noah answered, “Jesus would heal him so he could carry his own cupcakes.“ Rachel Nichols [source: rd.com]

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