🐞 Miss Tillia's Garden 🌳 🤣 The Runaway Giggles 😂 One breezy afternoon, a strange thing happened. Lucy told a joke. Nobody laughed. Benny made a funny face. Nobody laughed. Emma pretended to walk like a duck. Still nobody laughed. The children looked at one another. "Where did our giggles go?" Miss Tillia shook her branches. Tiny silver bells hidden among her leaves jingled. "Oh my," she said. "I think the giggles have escaped." "The giggles can do that?" asked Benny. "Only when they feel forgotten." The children followed a trail of tiny sparkling bubbles through the garden. Each bubble contained a little laugh. A chuckle. A snort. A squeak. A belly laugh. The bubbles floated farther and farther into the garden. Finally, they found hundreds of giggles hiding inside a meadow of bouncing mushrooms. "Why did you run away?" Lucy asked. A tiny giggle floated from its bubble. "Nobody was sharing us." The children looked confused. The giggle explained. "When children are worried, grumpy, or busy arguing, they stop sharing laughter." The other giggles nodded. "We missed making people smile." The children felt a little guilty. They had spent much of the week fussing over games and taking turns. Miss Tillia lowered a branch. "What do you think we should do?" Lucy smiled. "I think we should laugh." So the children spent the afternoon telling jokes, making silly faces, and playing games. The meadow filled with laughter. The runaway giggles floated back into everyone's hearts. Soon the whole garden echoed with happy sounds. As the sun set, Benny flopped onto the grass. "I forgot how much fun it is just to laugh." Miss Tillia chuckled. "Joy is one of God's gifts. The more you share it, the more it grows." The children agreed. And from that day on, whenever someone looked sad, they tried to share a smile, a joke, or a kind word because nobody wanted the giggles to run away again. 🌱 Seed from Miss Tillia's Garden "A cheerful heart is good medicine." — Proverbs 17:22 God loves it when we share joy with others. Sometimes a smile, a laugh, or a kind word can brighten someone's whole day. #MissTillia #childrenstory #christianwriter #christianfiction #christianfantasy #stacyfrantz