Be Kind...

It was a cold day in London in the month of December.

A little barefoot boy about 10 years old was standing in front of a shoe store.

He was shivering in the cold.

As his eyes restlessly move around scanning the variety of shoes in the display window.

A lady approached the young boy and said, “My son, it’s so cold, you are shivering. But you’re in such a deep thought staring at that window! What are you thinking?”

“I was asking God if He could give me a pair of shoes. “Replied the boy.

The lady took him by the hand, entered the store and asked the store manager to get a half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy.

She then asked for the basin of water and a towel which the manager quickly brought to her.

She knelt down, remover her gloves and washed his little feet gently.

She then dried them with a towel and placed a pair of socks on his feet.

Purchased him a pair of shoes and handed him the remaining pairs of socks.

As they left the store, she patted the boy on the head and said, “You certainly be comfortable now, darling.”

As the lady turned around and was about to leave.

The astonished kid caught her by the hand and looking up in her face with tears of gratitude in his eyes.

The boy innocently asked her, “By any chance are you God’s wife?”

It is empathy, compassion, sensitivity, love and acts of kindness that form the very foundation of spirituality.

Not only do this fundamental virtues of humanity help us handle the pain in this world but they also impel us to question their source.

Isn’t said, “Live in a life such a way that those who don’t know God but know you, will want to know God, because they know you.”