Friday, August 04, 2006

Beautiful story I heard tonight.......

Okay another touching story...get those tissues handy-LOLOLOL. Its a true story too :)Its called:
Where Is Gods Perfection?

In Brooklyn NY "Chush"is a school that caters to learning disabled children. Some children in Chush remain there for their entire school carrers. Others can be mainstreamed into conventional schools. At a Chush fundraising event, a dinner, the father of a Chush child deliverd a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended.

After extolling the school and its dedicated staff he cried out "Where is the perfection in my son Shia? Everything God does is done with perfection, but my child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is Gods perfection here?" The audiance was shocked by the question and pained by the fathers anquish and stilled by the piercing query."I believe, the father answered, that when God brings a child like Shia into the world the perfection that he seeks is in the way people react to this child." He then told the follwowing story abt his son Shia:
One afternoon Shia and his father walked past a park where some boys Shia knew were playing baseball. Shia asked his father" Do you think they'll let me play?!!" Shia's father knew that his son was not at all athletic and knew most boys wouldn't even want him on there team, but understood that if his son was chosen to play it would give his son a sense of belonging. Shia had never felt that way. Shais' father approached one of the boys on the field and asked if Shai could play. The boy looked ard for some guidance from his team mates, but after recieveing non, he decided to take matters into his own hands and said "Well,we are loosing by six runs, and the game is in the 8th inning. I guess he can be on our team-we will try and put him up to bat in the 9th inning." Shais father was exstatic as Shia smiled broadly. Shai was told to put on a glove and go out to play in center field. Shias team scored a few runs in the eighth inning but they were still behind by three. Shias team scored agn in the 9th inning, and with two outs and bases loaded, Shia was scheduled to be up with the potential winning run on base. Would the team actually let Shai bat at this juncture of the game and give away their chance to win? Surprisingly Shia was given the bat. Everyone knew that it was all but impossible as Shia didnt even know how to hold a bat let alone hit with it. However as Shia stepped up to bat the pitcher moved in a couple of steps so he could laud the ball in sofly so Shia would at least be able to make contact with the ball. The first pitch came in, Shia swung clumsily and missed. And then one of Shais teammates came out of the dug out and together they both held the bat and faced the pitcher for the ball to be pitched. The pitcher agn took in a couple more steps for Shia, and threw it more softly. At the next pitch Shia and the teammate together swung the bat and together they hit a low gound ball to the pitcher. The pitcher slowly picked up the slow grounder and could have easily thrown it to the first baseman-Shia would have been out and would have ended the game. But instead-the pitcher picked up the ball and threw it on a high arc to right field-far beyond the reach of the 1st baseman. Everyone started yelling "Shai run to first, run to 1st Shia!!!" Never in his life had Shia run to first. He scampered down the base line-wide eyes and startled. By the time he got to first base the right fielder had the ball and could have easily thrown it to second who would tag out Shia who was still running. But the right fielder understood what the pitchers intentions were. So he threw the ball high and far over the third basemans head. Everyone yelled "Run to second Shia. Run to second!" Shia ran to second base as the runners ahead of him deleriously circled the bases toward home. As Shia approached second base the opposing short stop ran up to him, turned him in the direction of third base and yelled "Run to third Shai, run to third!!!" As Shia rounded third the boys from both teams ran behind him yelling to him "Run home Shia,run home!!" Shia ran home, stepped on home plate, and all 18 boys lifted him on their shoulders and made him the hero- as he had just hit a grand slam and won the game for his team.

"That day, said his father-now with soft tears rolling down his face, Those 18 boys reached their level of Gods perfection."

BEAUTIFUL STORY-EH??? :)
There is so much in this story-so much for us all to learn. Extending this act of kindness showing Gods perfection. oh!!!! I love this story!!!!

2 comments:

C said...

I love that story!

MommyTof3 said...

I loved it too girl {{HUGS}}
I dont know where I find all these-Im so good at finding stories to make me cry-LOLOL-but their a good cry-kwim?
Love ya BB