BLIZZARDS AND STORIES...to warm the heart~

HO-HO-HO is right...this is what we woke up to this morning...a blizzard of wind and snow, I love it...a good day to stay in I think..good thing I have Christmas baking to do!

Next, two sweet short stories...hope you'll like them!

Why Do I Need To Be Here?

A week before Christmas in 2007 two of my children were sick with strep throat and ear infections. When we arrived at the prescription counter, my little boy Jacob tugged at my leg and complained about his ear, and my little girl, Beth wiggled out of my arms. I thought she would stay by me, but as soon as she was free, she ran straight to an elderly man sitting on a bench near the line.
The man was looking at the floor, his face resting in his hands. I called after Beth, not wanting to leave the line, but she approached the man anyway and bent down to look up at his face as she grinned and giggled.
I called her to come but she refused to listen and started pushing on the man's forehead in order to get him to raise his head. As I grew agitated, Beth took off her untied shoes and shoved them into the man's lap. He sat up and smiled. "Beth!" I called. "It's all right the man said in a tired voice. "I'll tie her shoes for her."
I grew a little nervous as he began putting Beth's shoes on her. When he finished, he wrapped jis arms around her and kissed her on the head. He slowly let her go, so I quickly left the line to rescue my daughter from this stranger.
As I approached, I noticed that he had tears in his eyes. Concerned, I sat down next to him. "I have to tell you something," he said, staring straight ahead. "Not more than a month ago my wife died, and about an hour ago I found out that I have terminal cancer. I came here to get medicine, and I have been contemplating my life and thinking that I might move along the inevitable. I didn't think I could bear going through Christmas and the pains of cancer without my sweet wife."
He said he had been praying, asking God, "If I need to be here for something, You better speak now, or I'm going home to end things." Before he had even said "amen," Beth began pestering him and calling him "Grandpa." "Now I know why I need to be here longer," he said. "I need to be here for my grandkids. They need me."
I threw my arms around him and could not help but weep. I then got our medicine. Beth, who had moments earlier, kissed the man on the cheek and bounded away with Jacob and me, waving and saying, "Bye-bye, Grandpa."
I didn't ask his name, but I will never forget that even a young child who pesters an old man can be an answer to prayer.
(The Ensign Magazine)

I love this story because children are so good and they truly can affect the world with their goodness...if we let them..."we must become, even as a child"...to be pure and clean and good before our Heavenly Father.

" Are You 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 it 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, she knelt down and washed his feet and dried them with the towel.
By this time the clerk has returned with the socks. Placing a pair on the boys's feet, she then 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 into her face, with tears in his eyes, answered the question with these words: "Are you God's Wife?"

~It really, truly is... " A Wonderful Life "...hope you are feeling it too~

I hope you enjoyed these stories as I did...I love Christmas and ALL that it brings, the stories, the blizzards...thats when I love to stay in and bake. Christmas is a coming...YEA!