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Babysitter Fulfills Strange Request for Child Before Bed—11 Yrs Later, She Gets a Letter in the Mail

It’s not every day you see the fruits of your labor and learn how you directly impacted someone’s life.

Sure, someone starts going to church and you hope your conversation with them that one time helped lead them there. Or a friend asked for your advice and their actions seem to follow what you told them.

We see where we might fit in to someone’s story, but rarely do we learn how big of a role we actually played.

Twenty-three-year-old Raquel is one of the lucky ones.

Her story made its way around the feeds of Tumblr and Reddit about a little girl she used to babysit:

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“When I was 12, I babysat this girl for a few years and she would come to me and show me her art, drag me by my wrists and point at the pieces she’d made during the week.”

Rather than blowing off the little girl’s request, Raquel always took the time to treasure the art at hand. She even turned it into a source of entertainment, narrating each masterpiece with the voice of a sports-announcer.

“Such form! This level of coloring! Why I haven’t seen such perfection in Crayola in a long time. And what is this? Why Jeff, now this is a true risk…it seems she’s made…a monochrome pink canvas…I haven’t seen this attempted since winter 1932…and I gotta say, Jeff, it’s absolutely splendid.”

Each time Raquel performed the bit, her creative little artist friend would “fall back giggling.”

“At the end of every night, she’d check with me: ‘did you really like it?’ And I’d say yes and talk about something I noticed and tucked her in.”

It’s been about 12 years, and Raquel received news about the little girl:

“She was just accepted into 3 major art schools. She wrote me a letter. Inside was a picture from when she was younger, monochrome pink.

‘Thank you,’ it said, ‘to somebody who saw the best in me.’”

Raquel’s story just goes to show, you never know just how much your words and actions might mean to someone else. May it inspire you to go out of your way for someone in your life today.

Bri Lamm
Bri Lamm
Bri is an outgoing introvert with a heart that beats for adventure. She lives to serve the Lord, experience the world, and eat macaroni and cheese in between capturing life’s greatest moments on one of her favorite cameras.

20 Things I Learned From My Dad

My dad taught me about life using nothing but a shovel and an analogy that still to this day doesn't even make sense. It wasn't really what he said, it was how he lived that showed me what real love looks like!

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When cerebral palsy threatened to keep Cayden in a wheelchair, his big brother, Connor, stepped in and changed everything for him. Now they compete in triathlons as the best team around.