We were sitting in a restaurant having an early breakfast, when a couple came in with a bright-eyed little boy. We both said, “Good morning!”
The little boy said to us, “You know what?”
“No,” we said. “What?”
The little boy said, “I’m four, but I’m really only one. I was born on February 29th and this is leap year. There are usually 28 days in February, but in the ‘leap year’ there are 29 days,” he explained to us very carefully.
We said, “Happy birthday, big one-year-old boy! Lots of people celebrate the birth of another little boy some think was born on December 25. Do you know who it is?”
“Oh, I know,” the birthday boy said. “It was Jesus.”
“We’re glad you know that,” we said. “We hope you grow up to love the Lord Jesus, because He loves you. Jesus came into the world to save sinners like all of us. He died on the cross to save those who love Him. He doesn’t want any of us to go to the place where the devil and his demons will be.
“Thank you for telling us about your February 29th birthday.”
Many of you boys and girls know that this year is not what they call “leap year.” Our next “leap year,” with an extra day added in February, will be the year 2020. That’s in two more years, and then the birthday boy will have another true birthday.
ML-02/11/2018