Blog Post – 2/22/2022 – Sometimes we need to review how we look at the world.

 

Sometimes we need to review how we look at the world.

 

Maybe these two stories from the late author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia can help think about our worldview.

 

A four-year-old child lived next door to 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 said to the neighbor, the little boy said: ‘Nothing, I just helped him cry.’

 

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 in his eyes, asked her: 'Are you God's wife?'

 

 

Today think about helping someone cry and seeing God in another person.

 

Our Lady of Perpetual Help, intercede for us.

St. Francis de Sales lift our prayers to the Lord.

May God Be Praised and your day be Blessed.