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Daddy's Shoes
Anyway, the loafers were on sale for $9.95 and this boy asked his dad for the money and his father told him that his shoes were good enough. The boy pleaded with him and his father gave in and said, "Well, I'll have to take part of your mother's grocery money." The boy took the money, but he looked at his father's shoes as his dad lay under a car he was fixing and the boy noticed that his shoes were wired on with bailing hay wire. I remember those days very well. I wired a pair of mine and someone at school made fun and I said, "Well, I'll have you to know that my daddy has got me a pair of new shoes ordered from the Sears and Roebuck catalog!" The boy went to the store and began to think about how hard his dad worked to support the family and how unselfish he was to put his family ahead of himself and the boy realized how selfish he was. So he bought his dad a new pair of shoes and put them in his old car as a surprise. His father found them and said, "Son, I thought you were going to get those penny loafers." "I was daddy, but," he said. He couldn't finish his sentence. He thought, "How can I tell him that his was the image I had chosen to follow? Or when it came to keeping up, then I wanted to try to keep up with the very best? I wanted to be more like the good man that God had given me for a father and follow in his footsteps."
What a wonderful, very touching story. Can you say amen?
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