Out of the mouths of Babes

**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 4 yr old boy whose next door
neighbor was and 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 had said the the
neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

**Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing
a picture of a family. One little boy in the picture
had a different color hair than the other family members.

One child suggested that he was adopted and a
little girl said, "I know all about adoptions
because I was adopted."

"What does it mean to be adopted?" asked another child.

"It means," said the girl, "that you grew in your
Mommy's heart instead of her tummy."

**A four year old was at the peditrician for a
check up. As the doctor looked down her ears with
an otoscope, he asked, "Do you think I'll find
Big Bird in here?"

The little girl stayed silent. Next, the doctor
took a tongue depressor and looked down her thoat.
He asked, "Do you think I'll find the Cookie
Monster down here?"

Again the little girl was silent.

Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest.
As he listened to her heart beat, he asked,
"Do you think I'll hear Barney in there?"

"Oh no!" the little girl replied. "Jesus is in
my heart. Barney is on my underpants."

**From a business man on his way home.
As I was driving home from work one day, I
stopped to watch a local Little League baseball
game that was being played in a park near
my home. As I sat down behind the bench on
the first base line, I asked one of the boys
what the score was.

"We're behind 14 to nothing," he answered with a smile.

"Really." I said. "I have to say you don't look
very discouraged."

"Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look
on his face. "Why should we be discouraged? We
haven't been up to bat yet."

**From a frind of Jamie Scott's Mother.
Whenever I am disappointed with my spot in life,
I stop and think of little Jamie Scott.

Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play.
His mother told me that he'd set his heart on
being in it though she feared he would not be chosen.
On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her
to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to
her, eyes shining with pride and excitement.

"Guess what Mom," he shouted, and then said those
words that will remain a lesson to me: "I've
been chosen to clap and cheer!"

**A lesson in "heart" from a father whose 10 year old
daughter, Sarah, was born with a muscle missing in
her foot and wears a brace all the time.

She came home one beautiful spring day to tell me
she had competed in "field day" - that's where
they have lots of races and other competitive events.
Because of her leg support, my mind raced as I tried
to think of encouragement for my Sarah, things I
could say to her about not letting this get her
down, but before I could get a word out, she said
"Daddy, I won two of the races!" I couldn't believe
it! And then Sarah said, "I had an advantage."

Oh. I knew it. I thought she must have been given
a head start...some kind of physical advantage.
But again, before I could say anything, she said
"Daddy, I didn't get a head start...My advantage
was I had to try harder!"

**An eyewitness account from New York City
on a cold day in December.

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 a half 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 if 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 in his eyes, answered the question
with these words: "Are you God's Wife?"

Oh the lessons we can learn from little ones!!!