IT WILL KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF!
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:
1. A four-year-old child whose next door neighbour 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 neighbour the little
boy just said,
'NothingI just helped him cry.'
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2. Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a picture of a family.
One little boy in the picture had a different hair colour than the
other members.
One of her students suggested that he was adopted.
A little girl said,
'I know all about adoption. 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!'
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3. To watch a Little League base ball game that was being played in a
park near my home.
As I sat down behind the bench on the first-base lineI 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.'
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4. Spot In life.
I stop and think about little Jamie Scott.
Jamie was trying out for a part in the 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.'
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5. An eye witness account from New York City on a cold day in December
some years ago:
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 young boy and said
'My but you're in such deep thought staring 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 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 the
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 you will be more comfortable now.'
As she turned to go the astonished kid caught her by the hand and
looking up into her face with tears In his eyes asked her.
'Are you God's wife?'
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