Nine year old Felix was a very smart boy who, at home, was always keeping everything he found in his closet.
 

	His mother one day entered his room at a time when Felix was not home and was horrified by the mess: clothes and toys thrown on the floor, shoes under the bed, books piled on his desk. She approached his closet, opened the door and was shocked! From inside, a lot of pieces of metal, plastic, wires, boxes, ball bearings and everything else that he would gather
fell on the floor. His mother waited for Felix to return from school to talk to him. When her son arrived home, she took him to his room and asked for an explanation:

- Felix, what does all of this in your closet mean? I was shocked when I opened the door to put away a few pieces of clean clothes and everything fell on my feet!

The boy looked at all those things on the floor and explained:

- Mom, it's just that I like to invent! I see a piece of metal and I already know what I can do with it! Please do not throw them away! I promise to find a place to put all this mess in.

- Okay, honey. But now let's have lunch, the food is ready - the mother agreed.

Felix followed her thinking: Where will I put all those "treasures" that I gathered? Get rid of them? No way!...

They sat at the table, and while having lunch, Felix kept thinking. He needed to solve that problem fast before his mother threw it all away. After the meal, he sat on the steps that led from the kitchen to the backyard, thoughtful.

Suddenly, Felix looked around and saw it.

- How did I not think of this before?!...

He got up and walked to a small room where his mother kept tools and other things. He examined it and saw that the place was almost empty. He ran to the kitchen where his mother washed the dishes, and said:

- Mom! Can I put my junk in that small room in the back?

- You can put your stuff there as long as there is enough space – she replied.

- Thanks, Mom! - the boy said, giving her a kiss on the cheek.

After collecting everything from his room, he took it all to the “messy room” as his mother used to call it.

He used a damp cloth to clean the shelves, and then spent the afternoon cleaning his objects and putting them in place. After all was done, he called his mother to see what he had done.
 

- My God!...

- Do you like it, Mom?

- My dear, it is amazing! You did an excellent job! I would like you to do the same thing with your room.

Felix smiled, amused, and said he liked so much what he had done that he would do the same to his room.

His mother hugged him, satisfied:

- Felix, you have unexpected and important skills. Use them well!

After the cleaning of the “messy room”, Felix started to like to go there and look at his stuff. Interestingly, as he watched the countless pieces, he imagined what he could do with them. So he started working, spending afternoons in constant work; he would do his homework first, then run to the messy room. So, before long, he had built several things.

One day, his school decided to have a Science Fair, to encourage the students' creativity. The opening day was a celebration. The whole city was invited.

Upon arrival, parents were the first to see the students' work, and they were amazed! So much creativity!

But, to the surprise of his family, Felix was the one who won the Creativity Award, as he had built a small robot.
 

His parents were impressed with everything he did quietly in the messy room. And as they all presented their works, each one explained what it was for and how they had done it. Felix became a celebrity at school. Students from other schools were interested to see the inventions of the fair. And they loved everything. An attending reporter asked: - Felix, you're still so young! How did you create these pieces?

The boy thought for a moment, then replied:

- I have always liked to collect recycling materials. Unlike other students, and even adults, just at looking at the objects for recycling, I could already see how they could be used and how the project would look after ready. However, when in doubt about what to create, I would say a prayer, and notice someone by my side, encouraging me. "This friend" – that I cannot see but feel - helped me to continue, and I could accomplish what had been planned. That's it!...

Hearing him, everyone was delighted with Felix, who completed:

- I believe I was greatly helped by this friend Jesus sent me!

Those who were there became respectfully thoughtful, really feeling that something special was happening when Felix worked. All of this encouraged the other students so much that, from then on, every year they had a Science Fair.

The most important thing is that Felix offered to give lessons to the other students, even the ones older than him, teaching them how to work with recycling materials.
 

MEIMEI
 

(Psychographed by Celia X. de Camargo on 14/07/2014.)