Socks and Shoes

My Dear Rishi,

I have not been able to write this blog consistently for past few months. In the past few weeks since my mom's passing away it has been rather difficult to sit and write.

This morning I came across an interesting story on compassion and thought this would be a good one to share with you.

 

Socks and Shoes

Author Unknown

 

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 the 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 give them to him. She patted him on the head and said, " No doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?'

 

As she turned up to go, the astonished lad caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes, asked the lady: " Are you God's wife?"

 

 

Rishi, this story when I read it I felt the power of compassion being conveyed in a very simple but very effective way. I hope, pray and wish you are a compassionate person.

 

With lots of love, hugs and kisses,

 

Daddy