Being
Followed?
Timmy
was a little five year old boy whose Mom loved him very much.
Being a worrier, she was concerned about his walking to school
when he
started Kindergarten. She walked with him the first few days, but
he
came home one day telling her he did not want her walking him to
school every day. He wanted to be like "big boys." He
protested so
loudly that she had to find another way to handle it.
She asked her neighbor Nancy
if she would surreptitiously follow her son to school at a
distance, but close enough to keep a watch on him.
Nancy
said that, since she was up early with her toddler anyway,
it would be a good way for them to get some exercise so she
agreed. The next school day, Nancy and her little girl
set out behind Timmy as he walked to school with his friend
Ronnie. This went on for a whole week. Timmy's friend
noticed that this same lady was following them every day.
Finally Ronnie asked Timmy, "Have you noticed that lady
following us all week? Do you know her?"
Timmy nonchalantly replied, "Yeah, I
know who she is." Ronnie asked, "Well, who is she?"
"That's just Shirley Goodnest an'
her little girl Marcy," Timmy said.
Ronnie inquired further, "Well, why
does she follow us every day like that?"
"Well," Timmy explained, "every
night Momma makes me say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers cuz she
worries about me so much. And in it, the prayer says, 'Shirley
Goodnest and Marcy shall follow me all the days of my life.' So,
I guess I'll just have to get used to it.
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