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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."
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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."
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A four year old was at the pediatrician for a check up. As the doctor looked
down her ears with an stethoscope, 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."
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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."
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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."
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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!"
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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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"We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take
a little of each other everywhere. --- Tim McGraw
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