PRICELESS
Priceless! God’s Wife
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:
<span style=”font-family: ‘Arial Black’; “> 1. 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 just said, ‘Nothing, I 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 color 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. On my way home one day, I stopped to
watch a 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. ‘Ihave 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. 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 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 t ome….’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 <span
That last one brought tears to my eyes…literally. Thanks for sharing these.
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Those are great, thanks for sharing!
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These are wonderful. Thank you for sharing.
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RYN: Here in Alaska, and I cannot speak for any other cruise venue…you get your best bargain by getting off the ship and talking with the locals who sell tours on their own. In Sitka and Ketchikan, just off the dock they have areas where tour sellers are allowed to sell from (one has boxes drawn on the dock and each seller must stay in his own box–this keeps people from being mobbed and hassled)! Anyway, The ships sell lots of local tours, and either raise the prices to the customer or collects 20 to 25% of the fee and gives the rest to the tour provider. If you buy directly from the tour seller who is going to DO the tour, you leave ALL your money in the town you are visiting. Plus there are a lot of really good tours that are not offered on the ship. This is partly because the ships require such high insurance liability limits (like $1Million and above) which is hard to pay for a small operation like us. Google the town, look for sellers in the towns you are going to. Call them, talk, make your reservations with them in advance if you don’t want to wait until the day you get there. Hope this helps and answers your question.
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