Subject: Thank You Notes
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 14:51:50 EST
"Help me, Jesus!"
A little boy was afraid of the dark. One night his
mother told him to go out to the back porch and
bring her the broom.
The little boy turned to his mother and said,
"Mama, I don't want to go out there. It's dark."
The mother smiled reassuringly at her son.
"You don't have to be afraid of the dark," she
explained. "Jesus is out there. He'll look after
you and protect you."
The little boy looked at his mother real hard
and asked, "Are you sure he's out there?"
"Yes, I'm sure. He is everywhere, and he is
always ready to help you when you need him,"
she said.
The little boy thought about that for a minute
and then went to the back door and cracked
it a little. Peering out into the darkness, he
called, "Jesus? If you're out there, would you
please hand me the broom?"
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"Thank You Notes"
One Christmas, a parent decreed that she was
no longer going to remind her children of their
thank-you note duties. As a result their
grandmother never received acknowledgments
of the generous checks she had given.... The
next year things were different, however.
"The children came over in person to thank me,"
the grandparent told a friend triumphantly.
"How wonderful!" the friend exclaimed. "What
do you think caused their change in behavior?"
"Oh, that's easy," the grandmother replied. "This
year I didn't sign the checks."
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