>> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >>A teacher from a primary school asks her students to write an essay >>about what they would like God to do for them. >> >> >>At the end of the day while marking the essays, >>she reads one that made her very emotional. >> >> >>Her husband, who had just walked in saw her crying >>and asked her what happened. >> >> >>She answered: ' Read this essay' >> >> >>"Oh God, tonight I ask you something very special: >>Make me into a television. >>I want to take its place. >>Live like the TV in my house. >> >> >>Have my own special place and have my family around me. >>To be taken seriously when I talk. >>I want to be the centre of attention >>and be heard without interruptions or questions. >> >> >>I want to receive the same specail care that the TV receives >>when it is not working. >>Have the company of my dad when he arrives home from work, >> even when he is tired. >> >>I want my mom to want me when she is sad and upset, >>instead of just shouting at me or ignoring me. >>I want to feel that my family just leaves everything aside, >>every now and then, just to spend some time with me. >> >> >>Lord I don't ask you for much.... I just want to live like every TV" >> >> >>At that moment the husband said ' Poor child. >>What horrible parents' >>His wife looked up at him and said, >>' That essay is our son's'. >> >> >> > >
