Sunday, May 11, 2008
Stories. @ 8:36 PM
It was a year ago that Benny got a bicycle for his ninth birthday , and he rode it every day.He took the bicycle whenever he went - to the grocer , the library , the school. It was the best present he had ever received.One day , as he was on his way to the backyard , he saw that his bicycle was gone from its usual place. Running to his frontyard, Benny saw a man loading it into his car. Panic and rage inwards him. He called after the man, but he went off. Mrs Saffle watched how Benny reacted to the lost of his treasured bicycle. After a while in his room, Bennt returned and told his parents that he forgave the thief, and he wanted the thief to know he was forgiven. The next day, he paste a message that his mother wrote on a large poster-board. He wrote his name,stapled it to a saw horse and put it in the front yard.
"To the person who stole my bike: You really hurt my feeling when you took my bike. But I FORGIVE YOU!! "
When Benny's father left for work the next day, the sign was taken down . But then , at the end of the yard, the little bicycle was back with new handlebars, grips, and a new front fork assembly.
and another one ,
It was in the emergency ward of a world-famous hospital and a nurse excorted a tired,anxious young man to the bedside of an elderly man.
"Your son is here,"she touched the patient's arm gently and whispered into his ears.The patient did not seem to register her words and she had to repeat them several times before the patient's eyes opened.He was heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack and he dimly saw the young man standing outside the oxygen tent.
Slowly and weakly,he reached out his hand and the young man tightly wrapped his fingers around it, squeezing a message of encouragement.The nurse brought a chair next to the bedside .All through the night the tired you man sat holding the old man's hand, and offering gentle words of hope.The dying man said nothing as he held tightly to his son.Comforted by the young man's presence,the old drifted into a deep sleep.
As dawn approached,the patient died.The young man placed on the bed the lifeless hand he had been holding ,and then he went to notify the nurse.
While the did what was necessary,the young man waited,When she had finished her , the nurse began to say words of sympathy to the young man.
But he interrupted her."Who was that man?"he asked.
The startled nurse replied,"I thought he was your father."
"No, her was not my father,"he answered."I never saw him before in my life."
"The why didn't you say something when I took you to him?"asked the nurse in bewilderment.
He replied,"I knew he needed his son,and his son just wasn't here, When I realized he was too sick to tell whether or not I was his son, I knew how much he needed me..."