A couple of weeks ago, we dropped by the Annual Book Fair in our city. It’s a great place to find an elusive book that one has been look for, or spot an interesting title we have never heard of. I spotted a small book entitled “There Is A God: 1001 Heartwarming (and Hilarious Reasons to Believe”. I opened a random page and what I read brought back a lesson that I learned years ago.
Our son had just graduated from high school and he decided to move away from home. It was fine with us because we understood the need to “spread his wings”. I decided to pack up his room so that we could use it for a guest room if needed. I discovered a wooden box that my father had given to our son, calling it a “Treasure Box”. It did have a hasp on it but the lock was open, so I had to investigate. The box was full of bubble gum cards! Why would he be saving those card, when Grandpa had given him a few items that were treasures to keep in that box? I was about to toss the whole load in the trash, but then had a second thought. Those cards belonged to him, and should not throw them out before asking him about them.
When I asked him about the gum cards, he told me that he had the entire set of cards of our city’s football team that had won the 1948 Grey Cup (Canada’s National Football League), and that he was told that those cards would be of great interest to a card collector. I was THAT close to being in a pile of trouble.
Back to the book… this was the quote that I read,
“There Is A God...You have the one mother in the Western Hemisphere who didn’t throw out her son’s baseball (football) cards.”
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