Message
i want
it on the record that i'm staying the HELL out of this fight. you know,
the one that's about to erupt?
Subject: Kid Stories
Author and lecturer Leo
Buscaglia once talked about a contest
he was asked to judge. The purpose of
the contest was to find the
most caring child.
The winner was a four
year old child whose next door neighbor was
an elderly gentleman who had
recently lost his wife. Upon seeing
the man cry, the little boy went
into the old gentleman's yard, climbed
onto his lap, and just sat
there. When his mother asked him what he
had said to the neighbor, the
little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."
Teacher Debbie Moon's
first graders were discussing a picture of a family.
One little boy in the
picture had a different color hair than the other family
members. One
child suggested that he was adopted and a little girl said,
"I know all
about adoptions because I was adopted." "What does it mean to be adopted?"
asked another child. "It means," said the girl, "that you grew in your
Mommy's heart instead of her tummy."
A four year old was at the
pediatrician for a check up. As the doctor looked
down her ears with an
otoscope, he asked, "Do you think I'll find Big Bird in here?" The little
girl stayed silent. Next, the doctor took a tongue depressor and looked
down her throat. He asked, "Do you think I'll find the Cookie Monster down
there?" Again, the little girl was silent. Then the doctor put a
stethoscope to her chest.
As he listened to her heart beat, he asked,
"Do you think I'll hear Barney in there?" "Oh, no!" the little girl
replied. "Jesus is in my heart. Barney's on my underpants."
As I
was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local Little League
baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down
behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys what the score
was. "We're behind 14 to nothing," he answered with a smile.
"Really," I said. "I have to say you don't look very discouraged."
"Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. "Why should
we be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat yet."
Whenever I'm
disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think about little Jamie
Scott. Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play. His mother told
me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she feared he would not be
chosen. On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after
school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and
excitement. "Guess what Mom," he shouted, and then said those words that
will remain a lesson to me: "I've been chosen to clap and cheer."
An Eye
Witness Account from New York City, on a cold day in December: A little boy
about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted,
peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the
boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you looking so earnestly in that
window?" "I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes," was the boy's
reply. The lady took him by the hand and went into the store and asked the
clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he
could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She
took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves,
knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with a towel. By this
time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's
feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs
of socks and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, "No
doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?" As she turned to
go, the astonished lad caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, with
tears in his eyes, answered the question with these! words: "Are you God's
Wife?"
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