A 5-year-old girl was moved to tears by her mother’s sweet and loving words.

Everyone wants to know and feel that they are cared for and loved. Sadly, the world is a sad, lonely and broken place where far too many people feel alone and unloved. Many individuals believe, for one reason or another, that no one cares about them or that they don’t matter to anyone.

That’s why telling the people around us how much we love and care for them is important. The words we say, as the Bible mentions, hold tremendous power. They can build someone up or tear an individual down. As one sweet interaction between a mother and her small child shows, words can also bring someone to tears.

The short, minute-and-a-half clip shows a mother and her 5-year-old daughter sitting at a table in what appears to be a mall’s food court. Mom then leans and, while looking at her child, expresses how she truly feels about her daughter and how much she has changed her life.

“My life got so much better when you were born,” Mom tells her daughter. “And I feel so lucky that God gave you to me five years ago!”

Later in the clip, Mom tells her daughter one of the things she loves most about her little girl.

“And you know what I love about you? How kind you are,” Mom says to the youngster. “I’ve been saying it since you were a baby. I wrote you a letter when you were six months old, and I said, ‘I can feel the way you love me by the way you look at me.’ And you are going to change people’s lives; you’ve changed my life by how much you love me and how well you love me. You’ve changed my life, Evie. I’m so lucky to have you.”

At this point, the little girl, with tears streaming down her face, leans into her mother for a warm and loving embrace.

What a beautiful and sweet moment between mother and daughter!

Psalm 127:3 “See, children are a heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.”