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Bobby was getting cold sitting out in his back yard in the snow.
Bobby
didn't wear boots; he didn't like them and anyway he didn't own any.
The thin sneakers he wore had a few holes in them and they did a poor
job of keeping out the cold.
Bobby had been in his backyard for about an hour already. And,
try as
he might, he could not come up with an idea for his mother's Christmas
gift. He shook his head as he thought, "This is useless, even
if I do come
up with an idea, I don't have any money to spend."
Ever since his father had passed away three years ago, the family of
five
had struggled. It wasn't because his mother didn't care, or try,
there just
never seemed to be enough. She worked nights at the hospital,
but the
small wage that she was earning could only be stretched so far.
What the family lacked in money and material things, they more than
made
up for in love and family unity. Bobby had two older and one
younger sister,
who ran the household in their mother's absence.
All three of his sisters had already made beautiful gifts for their
mother.
Somehow, it just wasn't fair. Here it was Christmas Eve already,
and he
had nothing.
Wiping a tear from his eye, Bobby kicked the snow and started to walk
down to the street where the shops and stores were. It wasn't
easy being
six without a father, especially when he needed a man to talk to.
Bobby walked from shop to shop, looking into each decorated window.
Everything seemed so beautiful and so out of reach. It was starting
to
get dark and Bobby reluctantly turned to walk home when suddenly his
eyes caught the glimmer of the setting sun's rays reflecting off of
something
along the curb. He reached down and discovered a shiny dime.
Never before has anyone felt so wealthy as Bobby felt at that moment.
As he held his new found treasure, a warmth spread throughout his entire
body and he walked into the first store he saw. His excitement
quickly turned
cold when salesperson after salesperson told him that he could not
buy anything
with only a dime.
He saw a flower shop and went inside to wait in line. When the
shop owner
asked if he could help him, Bobby presented the dime and asked if he
could
buy one flower for his mother's Christmas gift. The shop owner
looked at
Bobby and his ten cent offering. Then he put his hand on Bobby's
shoulder
and said to him, "You just wait here and I'll see what I can do for
you."
As Bobby waited, he looked at the beautiful flowers and even though
he was a
boy,he could see why mothers and girls liked flowers.
The sound of the door closing as the last customer left, jolted Bobby
back to
reality. All alone in the shop, Bobby began to feel alone and
afraid.
Suddenly the shop owner came out and moved to the counter. There,
before
Bobby's eyes, lay twelve long stem, red roses, with leaves of green
and tiny
white flowers all tied together with a big silver bow. Bobby's
heart sank as
the owner picked them up and placed them gently into a long white box.
"That will be ten cents young man." the shop owner said reaching
out his
hand for the dime. Slowly, Bobby moved his hand to give the man
his dime.
Could this be true?No one else would give him a thing for his dime!
Sensing
the boy's reluctance, the shop owner added, "I just happened to have
some
roses on sale for ten cents adozen. Would you like them?"
This time Bobby did not hesitate, and when the man placed the long box
into
his hands, he knew it was true. Walking out the door that the
owner was holding
for Bobby, he heard the shop keeper say, "Merry Christmas, son."
As he returned inside, the shop keepers wife walked out. "Who
were you talking
to back there and where are the roses you were fixing?"
Staring out the window, and blinking the tears from his own eyes, he
replied,
"A strange thing happened to me this morning. While I was setting
up things to
open the shop, I thought I heard a voice telling me to set aside a
dozen of my
best roses for a special gift. I wasn't sure at the time whether
I had lost my mind
or what, but I set them aside anyway. Then just a few minutes
ago, a little boy
came into the shop and wanted to buy a flower for his mother with one
small
dime.
When I looked at him, I saw myself, many years ago. I too was
a poor boy with
nothing to buy my mother a Christmas gift. A bearded man, whom
I never knew,
stopped me on the street and told me that he wanted to give me ten
dollars.
When I saw that little boy tonight, I knew who that voice was, and
I put together
a dozen of my very best roses."
The shop owner and his wife hugged each other tightly, and as they stepped
out'
into the bitter cold air, they somehow didn't feel cold at all.
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