A little boy about 10 years old was standing in front of a shoe store window, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.
A lady approached the boy and said, “My little fellow, why are you looking so earnestly 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 and went into the store and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy.
She then asked the clerk if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the boy to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little 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 bought him a pair of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him.
She patted him on the head and said, “No doubt, my little fellow, you feel more comfortable now?”
As she turned to go, the astonished boy caught her by the hand, and looking up in her face, with tears in his eyes, asked: “Are you God’s wife?”
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