As a new bride, Aunt Edna moved into the small home on her h=
usband’s ranch in Wyoming. She put a shoebox on a shelf in her closet=
and asked her husband never to touch it.
For fifty years, Uncle Jack left =
the box alone, until Aunt Edna was old and dying. One day, when he wa=
s putting their affairs in order, he found the box again and thought it mig=
ht hold something important.
Opening it, he found two doilies and $82,500 i=
n cash. He took the box to her and asked about the contents. &q=
uot;My mother gave me that box the day we married," she explained. &qu=
ot;She told me to make a doily to help ease my frustrations every time I go=
t mad at you."
Uncle Jack was very touched that in 50 years she’d only=
been mad at him twice.
=
"What’s the $82,500 for?" he asked.
"=
;Oh, that’s the money I made selling the doilies."
[reprint, Oc=
tober 2001 Grif Net]
~~
Dr Bob Griffin
[email protected] www.grif.net=
&qu=
ot;Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"