This is real grace.

An eye witness account from New York City, on a cold day in Decenber, some years ago: A little boy, about 10-years old, was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefotted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold.

A lady approached the young boy and said, 'My, but you're in such deep thought staring in that window!'

'I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes,' was the boy's reply.

The lady took him by the hand, went into the store, and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a tower. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with the towel.

By this time, the clerk had returned with the socks... Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes...

She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him.. She patted him on the head and said, 'No doubt, you will be comfortable now.'

As she turned to go, the astonished kid caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face, with tears in his eyes, asked her... "ARE YOU GOD'S WIFE?"

Yes, this is a cute little story, but we can be "God's wife" every day. We do not have to wait to find someone on the street who is cold and hungry. Who needs shoes or a good meal. There are people who live next door or in our neighborhoods, who are spiritually needy. People who just need someone to acknowledge that they are alive. I am going to commit today to look for those people. To pray that God reveal them to me. I am not going to wait.