Are You God's Wife?

An eye witness 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, shivering with cold.

A lady approached the young boy and said, ‘my,

but you’re in such deep thought staring 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, went into

the store, and asked the clerk to get a half dozen pairs

of socks for the boy.  She asked if he could

give her a basin of water and a towel.

He quickly brought them.

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.

She placed a pair upon the boy’s feet…and then

purchased a pair of shoes for him.

She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and

gave them to the boy…patted him on the head and said,

‘no doubt, you will be more comfortable now’.

As she turned to go, the astonished boy caught her by

the hand and looking up into her face,

with tears in his eyes, asked her,

‘Are you God’s wife?’

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