Irreverent Manipulation
"Children are gifts
from God"
Little Benjamin
sat down at the desk to write a letter to God asking for a little baby sister. He started the letter like this:
Dear God, I've
been a very good boy ...
He stopped, thinking.
No, God won't believe that. He wadded up the piece of paper, threw it away, and started again:
Dear God, most
of the time I've been a good boy ...
He stopped in the
middle of the line, again thinking, God won't be moved by this. So he wadded up the letter and into the trash can it
went.
Benjamin then went into the bathroom and grabbed a big terry cloth towel
off the towel rack. He carried it into the living room and carefully laid it out on the couch. He smoothed out
all the wrinkles. Then he went over to the fireplace mantle, reached up , and very carefully lifted down a statue of
the Madonna. He often had seen his Mother carefully dust the statue, and he had eyed it many times.
On several occasions,
his parents had told him that he could look but was not to touch the statue. Now, with all the care he could muster,
he had it in his possesion. Benjamin gently placed the statue in the middle of the towel, carefully folding over the
edges. He then placed a rubber band around the whole thing. He brought it to the desk, took out another piece
of paper, and began to write his third letter to God. It went like this:
Dear God,
if you ever want to see your Mother again ...
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