walking to school

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Subject: WALKING TO SCHOOL

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>

> Timmy

was a little five year old boy whose Mom loved him very

much,

and

> being a

worrier, she was concerned about him walking to school

when

he

> started

Kindergarten. She walked him to school the first couple of

days,

and

> at the

end of the week, he came home from school and told his

mother

that

he

> did not

want her walking him to school everyday. He wanted to be

like

the

>

" big boys " he protested loudly.

>

>

So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor,

Mrs.

>

Goodnest, if she would please follow him to school in the mornings,

staying

> at a

distance, so he probably wouldn't notice her. Mrs. Goodnest

said

that

> since

she was up early with her toddler anyway, it would be a good

way for

> them to

get some exercise as well, so she agreed.

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>

The next school day, Mrs. Goodnest and her little girl, Marcy,

set

out

>

following behind Timmy as he walked to school w! ith another

neighbor

boy

he

> knew.

She did this for the whole week.

>

>

As the boys walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs,

Timmy's

little

> friend

noticed the same lady was following them as she seemed to

do

every

> day all

week. Finally he said to Timmy, " Have you noticed that lady

>

following us to school all week? Do you know her? "

>

>

Timmy nonchalantly replied, " Yeah, I know who she is. " The

friend

said,

>

" Well, who is she? "

>

>

" That's just Shirley Goodnest " Timmy replied, " and her daughter

Marcy. "

> " Shirley

Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following

us? "

>

>

" Well " , Timmy explained, " every night my Mom makes me

>

say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers, 'cuz she worries about me so

much.

>

>

And in the psalm, it says 'Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall

follow

me

all

> the

days of my life,' so I guess I'll just have to get used to it! "

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