We Need A Smile
April 4, 2010 by Dan
Filed under Encouragement
By Dan Samaria
Publisher/YC
Apr. 4, 2010
With everything that this President, is doing to this Country which is not good. We all need a laugh. This was sent to me by one of my readers. I hope it will bring the same smile that it has brought to me.
A mom was concerned about her kindergarten son walking to school. He didn’t want his mother to walk with him. She wanted to give him the feeling that he had some independence but yet know that he was safe.
So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor if she would please follow him to school in the mornings, staying at a distance, so he probably wouldn’t notice her.
She said that since she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as well, so she agreed.
The next school day, the neighbor and her little girl set out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another neighbor girl he knew.
She did this for the whole week.
As the two walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, Timmy’s little friend noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed to do every day all week.
Finally she said to Timmy, ‘Have you noticed that lady following us to school all week?
Do you know her?’
Timmy nonchalantly replied,
“Yeah, I know who she is.’
The little girl said, ‘Well, who is she?’
‘That’s just Shirley Goodnest,’ Timmy replied, ‘and her daughter Marcy.’
‘Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following us? ‘
‘Well,’ Timmy explained, ‘every night my Mom makes me say the 23rdPsalm
With my prayers, ‘cuz she worries about me so much.
And in the Psalm, it says, ‘Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall follow
Me all the days of my life’, so I guess I’ll just have to get used to
It!’
The Lord blesses you and keeps you; the Lord makes His face to shine upon
You, and be gracious unto you; the Lord lift His countenance upon
You, and give you peace.
May Shirley Goodnest and Marcy be with you today and always?
I know you smiled!
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