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---------------------- Forwarded by Andrea Ring/HOU/ECT on 03/29/2001 03:49=
=20 PM --------------------------- =20 =09 =09 =09From: Karen D McIlvoy 03/29/2001 01:12 PM =09 To: ragan.bond@bhlp.com cc: (bcc: Andrea Ring/HOU/ECT) Subject: Fwd: THIS WILL BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY!!! Subject: Have Faith In Our Future Generation!!=20 < < <=20 < < <=20 < < << Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was= =20 asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring chil= d.=20 < < << The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an= =20 elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry,= =20 the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, an= d=20 just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor,= =20 the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."=20 < < <<=20 < < <<=20 < < << Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a picture of a= =20 family.=20 < < << One little boy in the picture had a different color hair than the=20 other family members. One child suggested that he was adopted and a little= =20 girl said, "I know all about adoptions because I was adopted."=01; "What do= es it=20 mean to be adopted?" asked another child. "It means," said the girl, "that= =20 you grew in your mommy's heart instead of her tummy."=20 < < <<=20 < < <<=20 < < << A four year old was at the pediatrician for a check up. As the docto= r=20 looked down her ears with an otoscope, he asked, "Do you think I'll find Bi= g=20 Bird in here?" The little girl stayed silent. Next, the doctor took a tongu= e=20 depressor and looked down her throat. He asked, "Do you think I'll find the= =20 Cookie Monster down there?" Again, the little girl was silent.=20 < < << Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest. As he listened to he= r=20 heart beat, he asked, "Do you think I'll hear barney in there?"=01; "Oh, no= !"=20 the little girl replied. "Jesus is in my heart.=01; Barney's on my underpan= ts."=20 < < <<=20 < < <<=20 < < << As I was driving home from work one day, I stopped to watch a local= =20 Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. A= s=20 I sat down behind the bench on the first-base line, I asked one of the boys= =20 what the score was.=01; "We're behind 14 to nothing," he answered with a sm= ile.=01;=20 "Really," I said. "I have to say you don't look very discouraged."=20 "Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. "Why should w= e=20 be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat yet."=20 < < <<=20 < < <<=20 < < << Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think abo= ut=20 little Jamie Scott.=01; Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play.= =20 His mother told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, though she feare= d=20 he would not be chosen. On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her = to=20 collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride a= nd=20 excitement. "Guess what Mom," he shouted, and then said those=20 words that will remain a lesson to me: "I've been chosen to clap and cheer.= "=20 < < <<=20 < < <<=20 < < << A lesson in "heart" is my little 10 year old daughter, Sarah, who wa= s=20 born with a muscle missing in her foot and wears a brace all the time. She= =20 came home one beautiful spring day to tell me she had competed in "field da= y"=20 - that's where they have lots of races and other competitive events. Becaus= e=20 of her leg support, my mind raced as I tried to think of encouragement=20 for my Sarah, things I could say to her about not letting this get her down= ,=20 but before I could get a word out, she said "Daddy, I won two of the races!= "=20 I couldn't believe it!=01; And then Sarah said, "I had an advantage.=20 "Ah. I knew it. I thought she must have been given a head=20 start...some kind of physical advantage. But again, before I could say=20 anything, she said, "Daddy, I didn't get a head start... My advantage=01; w= as I=20 had to try harder!"=20 < < <<=20 < < <<=20 < < << An Eye Witness Account from New York City, on a cold day in December= :A=20 little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on the=20 roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.= =20 < < << A lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you= =20 looking so earnestly in that window?" "I was asking God to give me a pair o= f=20 shoes," was the boy's reply. The lady took him by the hand and went into th= e=20 store and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. S= he=20 then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly=20 brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the sto= re=20 and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet,=20 and dried them with a towel.=01; By this time the clerk had returned=20 with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him a pai= r=20 of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. Sh= e=20 patted him on the head and said, "No doubt, my little fellow, you feel=20 more comfortable now?"=01; As she turned to go, the astonished lad caught h= er=20 by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes, answered t= he=20 question with these words:=01; "Are you God's Wife?"=20
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