Unicorn (Unicorn@Indenial.com)
Sun, 03 Jan 1999 11:09:22 -0500
"The best thing to give your enemy is forgiveness;
To an opponent, tolerance;
To a friend, your heart;
To your child, a good example;
To a father, deference;
To your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
To yourself, respect;
To all men, charity."
Francis Maitland Balfour
Normally I publish only one inspirational story. However,
I had a very hard time deciding between these two.
Hence, I will run them both. Enjoy! {You might want to get
that hankie ready....}
LadyHawke
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"A Brother Like That"
Paul received an automobile from his brother as a
Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came
out of his office, a street urchin was walking around the
shiny new car, admiring it.
"Is this your car, Mister?" he asked.
Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me for Christmas."
The boy was astounded. "You mean your brother gave it
to you and it didn't cost you nothing? Boy, I wish..." He
hesitated. Of course Paul knew what he was going to
wish for. He was going to wish he had a brother like that.
But what the lad said jarred Paul all the way down to his
heels.
"I wish," the boy went on, "that I could be a brother like that."
Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, then impulsively
he added, "Would you like to take a ride in my automobile?"
"Oh yes, I'd love that."
After a short ride, the boy turned and with his eyes aglow,
said, "Mister, would you mind driving in front of my house?"
Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted.
He wanted to show his neighbors that he could ride home in
a big automobile. But Paul was wrong again.
"Will you stop where those two steps are?" the boy asked.
He ran up the steps. Then in a little while Paul heard him
coming back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying
his little crippled brother. He sat him down on the bottom
step, then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to
the car. "There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs.
His brother gave it to him for Christmas and it didn't cost
him a cent. And some day I'm gonna give you one just like it...
Then you can see for yourself all the pretty things in the
Christmas windows that I've been trying to tell you about."
Paul got out and lifted the lad to the front seat of his car.
The shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and
the three of them began a memorable holiday ride.
That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant when
he had said: "It is more blessed to give..."
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"Cold Day In New York"
This is an eye witness account which happened in the
City of New York, on a cold day in December some time ago...
A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe
store on Broadway, 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 G-d 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, and he replied:
"Certainly," and 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,
and tying up the remaining pairs of socks, 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 G-d's Wife?"
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