'Mom he's doing good': 5-year-old shocks mother with heart-warming action outside his school

'This is such a beautiful picture.'

Five-Year-old Royce Nelson caught his mother by surprise one day when he stopped in his tracks and respectfully put his hand to his heart.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "PROUD MOMMY ALERT," Heather L. Nelson shared to her Facebook.

It was part of a caption for an image of her son, head bowed, just outside the entrance of his elementary school.

A security guard stands nearby, observing the boy as he took a moment to first say the Pledge of Allegiance, then offer the Lord a prayer.

Nelson explained her son was running late and other children simply walked around him.

"I had dropped Royce off in the line..by the time I drove up he was doing this," she wrote. "I couldn't really tell what he was doing and I was saying, 'Royce..go..go" as kids walked around him.

Well he didn't budge and I thought what is this child doing?

The officer said, 'mom he's doing good, he stopped for the Pledge of Allegiance (and then she puts her hand over her herat to show me) and now he's praying.'

"Since they do not have prayer in schools he says a little prayer silently and that's exactly what he was doing.

"I was so proud that he stopped when the Pledge of Allegiance came and stood his ground and did not move as the other kids were going in and then took time out and prayed and did not even care or think twice about it. This is such a beautiful picture."

Nelson told WDAF-TV, "I was about four cars back so I just saw him standing there with what looked like him just looking at his shoes. But that did not seem like Royce."

After the officer filled her in, Nelson shared: "When I picked him up I asked him what made him do it."

She said the boy responded with a matter-of-fact voice and said, "Duh, mom. That's what you're supposed to do."

Nelson asked the officer if she suggested he take a moment but when the woman said she didn't, Nelson was happy to announce, "...it was all him and I am so proud of him."

Royce knew there was a chance he would be late to school, but he still took the time to spend a moment with his Heavenly Father. How many of us can claim to do the same? Learn from Royce and make time every day to pray to the Lord.

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