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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:01:23 GMT
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Cry
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."
What It Means to Be Adopted...
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."
Barney
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."
Discouraged?
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."
Roles And How We Play Them...
Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in my 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."
A Lesson In Heart
A lesson in "heart" is my little, 10 year old daughter, Sarah, who
was born with a muscle missing in her foot and wears a brace all the time.
She came home one beautiful spring day to tell me she had competed in
"field day" - that's where they have lots of races and other competitive
events. Because of her leg support, my mind raced as I tried to think of
encouragement for my Sarah, things I could say to her about not letting
this get her down - but before I could get a word out, she said, "Daddy, I
won two of the races!"
I couldn't believe it!
And then Sarah said, "I had an advantage."
Ah. I knew it. I thought she must have been given a head start...some
kind of physical advantage.
But again, before I could say anything, she said, "Daddy, I didn't
get a head start... My advantage was I had to try harder!"
Shoes From God
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 boys 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 his eyes, answered the question with
these words: "Are you God's Wife?"
--
Rolex
"May Dragons Fly Ever in your Dreams"
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