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~ Welcome to Heartwarmers ~
The best thing to happen to mornings since the Sun!
Your morning thought for the day:
Anger is a wind that blows out
the lamp of the mind.
SEND BEAUTY
On the morning of
Tuesday, September 11th, Kate Cain-Bell was fully
immersed in teaching "something important"
to her first grade class at
Richboro Elementary School, in Richboro, Pennsylvania.
Not long into the
day, the principal asked her to step out of the
classroom for a moment. There in the
hallway, she heard about the
devastation in New York and Washington, DC.
It was difficult for her to
grasp the news, let alone try to explain it
to innocent minds, so she
agreed with the school's decision not to inform
the children.
When Kate returned
to her waiting charges, the class work seemed to
pale in comparison to the significance of
the day's events. As a deeply
spiritual woman, she felt compelled to impact
the world in a positive way
during the time of such a crisis. An
idea leapt to mind. She drew in a
breath, walked to the front of the class and
made a request.
"I want each of you
to imagine the most beautiful thing you can think
of. Hold that thought in your mind and
then send it out to the world. Can
you all do that?"
A sea of young faces
nodded.
"Okay. Let's
do it."
And with that, a
wave of beauty was sent out into a world of ugliness.
At the end of the
day, Kate wanted her class to be prepared with some
knowledge that they wouldn't be walking into
the same world they'd left
that morning. Another idea blossomed.
She stood in front of the class
again.
"Remember when I
asked you to send out your beautiful thought to the
world?"
After pausing to
accept their nods, Kate continued. "Well, while you
were sending out your beauty, someone else
sent something-not-so-beautiful
into the world."
Kate paused again,
to see if her young charges understood.
One little girl piped
up, "Well, when I get home I'll send them
something beautiful right back!"
In the midst
of tragedy, triumph comes in many forms. This time, it
came in the form of a young child who learned
a lesson that was truly
"something important".
Send beauty.
-- Teri Goggin <IndigoMuse63 @ aol.com>
____________________________________________
Teri lives in Pennsylvania with her two children.
This past summer they
spent four days at the Marriott World Trade
Center (located between the two
towers) while her son participated in a three-day
educational conference in
Building One. Teri sends love, beauty
and peace to all those faces forever
alive in her mind as well as those left behind
to grieve. Godspeed.
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