God's Wife

[FISHINLADY]

An Eye Witness Account from New York
City, on a
cold day in
December some years ago: A little
boy about 10
years old was
standing
before a shoe store on the roadway,
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
if he could give 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
and, removing her gloves, knelt down,
washed his
little feet, and
dried
them with a towel.
By this time the clerk had returned
with the
socks. Placing a
pair upon the boy's feet, she
purchased 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 lad caught her
by the hand, and looking up in her
face, with
tears in his eyes,
answered the question with these
words: "Are
you God's Wife?"