Fall is coming to New England! The leaves are changing colors & falling to the ground. Last year we traveled through with Mom & Dad which was so much fun, but this year we are looking forward to experiencing the whole season.
Unfortunately it is fall in Alaska too, & with a huge windstorm it blew 4 trees onto our house. Thankfully the damage wasn't as bad as it could have been & at least no one was hurt. Having our sons with the skills to fix our house is a bonus. There were many times when we would be sitting in the jacuzzi with the wind blowing the trees & I would tell Rod that I was sure they would fall. Well, it finally happened. Too bad!
Since we have had a normal week we would like to send a story.
The Cookie Thief!
A woman bought some cookies & a book at an airport & sat down to read & nibble while waiting for her plane. She soon noticed a man sitting next to her, who casually took a cookie from the bag.
Although shocked & seething, the woman remained silent as the man, without the slightest sign of shame or gratitude, quietly helped himself, matching her cookie for cookie.
When there was one cookie left, she watched in amazement as he picked it up, smiled at her as if he were being gracious, & broke it in half. He ate one half & gave her the other.
Congratulating herself for maintaining her cool, she said nothing to this rude cookie thief, astonished at the nerve of some people.
Later, when she was settling into her seat on the plane, she rummaged through her purse & discovered the bag of cookies she'd purchased, still unopened. The moral message is contained in the poem's closing stanza:
"If mine are here," she moaned with despair, "Then the others were his, & he tried to share." Too late to apologize, she realized with grief, that she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.
The message that we got from this story is that we shouldn't judge. I have judged others, which I am not proud of & I have been judged, which hurts when others don't know the facts.
We should always be charitable, kind & loving to others.
"CHARITY NEVER FAILETH".
We send our love to everyone!
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