Clap and Cheer

This is another series of quotes from children.
Read through them a couple times.

Kids 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.
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The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was 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 had said to
the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."
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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. 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."
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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."
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Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think about
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."
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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 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 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 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
up in her face, with tears in his eyes, answered the question with these
words: "Are you God's Wife?"