God’s wife and other stories

We all get them. Those jokes and stories, circulating through our email in-tray. Every once in a while, one grabs me because it is extra funny, or somehow tugs at my heart. A bunch of those stories fell in my in-tray over the weekend. I figured they were sweet so I’m going to share them around. They’re extra sweet because they came from my ex-husband, and I’m really glad to be in a place in my life where an ex can make me smile rather than shout or weep.

The most caring child

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 a four-year-old child whose next-door neighbor, an elderly gentleman, 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 neighbour, the little boy simply said, ‘Nothing. I just helped him cry.’