―Jane Austen
A little boy
I know wanted his mother to be at his school's book fair when his class went to
visit it. The mother had taken him to
the fair during an evening family event, yet he was hoping that she would be
there when his class went to the book fair again the next day. His mother very much wanted to go and had
planned to be there. But a nail in one
of her car's tires intervened and she was not able to go. Although disappointed, the boy enjoyed
visiting the book fair with his class.
And he even found it in his heart to share the money that his mother had
given him with another little boy who had not taken money to buy books.
"It felt good to be generous," the
little boy told his mother when he came home from school. His kindness toward the other boy made the
mother feel better, too. She realized
that if he could find space in his heart for kindness despite his disappointment,
then his was a happy heart.
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