God’s Wife?
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 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 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 his eyes, answered the question with these words: “Are you God’s Wife?”
Right action has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which kindness and compassion use to see this world.
Yours are the feet with which difficult journeys are traversed.
Yours are the hands through which all good deeds bless all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are the presence which this world desperately needs.
Kindness, compassion, sorrow and joy have no body, no meaning no value without you engaging and acting upon these values.
Peace and Love, Jim
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