Leo Buscaglia tells the story of a barefooted, ten-year-old boy staring through the window of a shoe store on a cold December day.
A lady approached him and said, “My, but you’re in such deep thought.’
The boy replied, “I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes.”
Taking him by the hand the lady led him into the store and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. Then she asked him if he would please get 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, removed her gloves, knelt down and washed his feet and dried them with the towel. By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy’s feet, she then purchased a pair of shoes for him.
As she turned to go the astonished kid caught her by the hand.
Looking up into her face, with tears in his eyes, he asked her:
“Are you God’s wife?”
“Are you God’s wife?”
“Are you God’s wife?”
— Richard Exley, May 27, 2017