A man and a woman had been married
for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about
everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little
old woman had a shoe box in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her
husband never to open or ask her about.
For
all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little
old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took
down the shoe box and took it to his wife's bedside.
She agreed
that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it,
he found two crocheted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents. 'When we were to be married,'
she said, ' my grandmother told me, the secret of a happy marriage was to
never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep
quiet and crochet a doll.'
The little old man was so moved; he
had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only
been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He
almost burst with happiness.
'Honey,' he said, 'that explains
the doll, but what about all of this money? Where did it come from?'
'Oh,' she said, 'that's the money I made from selling the
dolls.'
A Prayer.. .....
Dear Lord, I pray for
Wisdom to understand my man;
Love to forgive him; And Patience for
his moods;
Because Lord, if I pray for Strength, I'll beat him to
death, because I don't know how to crochet.