A lesson in heart   5 comments

Posted at 9:04 pm in Moral stories

My little 10-year-old daughter, Sarah was born with a muscle missing in her foot and wears a brace all the time. She came home one beautiful spring day to tell me she had competed in “field day” – that’s where they have lots of races and other competitive events.

Because of her leg support, my mind raced as I tried to think of encouragement for my Sarah, things I could say to her about not letting this get her down – but before I could say anything, she said, “Daddy, I won two of the races!” I couldn’t believe it! And then Sarah said, “I had an advantage.” I knew it. I thought she must have been given a head start…some kind of physical advantage. But again, before I could say anything, she said, “Daddy, I didn’t get a head start…my advantage was I had to try harder!”



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Story Posted by Stephen on November 17th, 2008

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5 Responses to: A lesson in heart

  1. nashit -- 8 Mar 09 at 11:26 am

     

    very inspiring………
    “Where There Is a will, there is a Way..”

  2. Mallamma -- 15 Nov 10 at 2:46 am

     

    Good……one……….
    Your daughter will reach a great heights in life because small small achievements beyound our reach will make us to reach the impossible tasks.

  3. Ishaan -- 15 Jun 11 at 11:09 am

     

    Very inspiring and well written

  4. Abhisek -- 25 Sep 11 at 5:30 am

     

    Well written and heart touching story…

  5. Renzie -- 12 Jan 12 at 9:30 pm

     

    Very nice….i love this..

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