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5-year-old boy shows kindness to homeless man, moves Waffle House customers to tears

Josiah insisted on helping the unknown man. Photo: Supplied

Josiah Duncan, 5, had a lot of questions about the man sitting outside an Alabama Waffle House where the boy and his mother had chosen to eat dinner.

He asked his mother, Ava Faulk, where the man lived, where his family was, and where he kept his groceries. She explained that the man was homeless.

The boy’s biggest concern: the man had nothing to eat.

So he asked his mom to buy the man a hamburger.

“He came in and sat down, and nobody really waited on him,” Faulk told WSFA 12 News in an email. “So Josiah jumped up and asked him if he needed a menu because you can’t order without one.”

When the man was assured that he could order anything he wanted off the menu — his initial response to the generosity was to order the cheapest burger on the menu — he got “the works” with bacon.

Before he could bite into his meal, however, Josiah insisted on singing a blessing with him.

“God our Father, God our Father, we thank you, we thank you, for our many blessings, for our many blessings, Amen, Amen,” the boy sang, with 11 customers watching the sweet moment.

"The man cried. I cried. Everybody cried,” Faulk said.

After finishing his burger, the man left the restaurant.

“Watching my son touch the 11 people in that Waffle House tonight will be forever one of the greatest accomplishments as a parent I’ll ever get to witness,” Faulk told WSFA 12 News.