RETOLD STORY OF KINDNESS
We were sent this story from Context, November 1, 1991 published by Claretian Publications, Chicago, Illinois. Context took a story from Guideposts which had retold it from Acts of Compassion: Caring for Others and Helping Ourselves published by Princeton and written by Robert Wuthnow, a Princeton sociologist. He had retold a story from Norman Vincent Peale… The story was about a girl named Ursula who had come from Switzerland to live in an American home, learn English in return for child care and housekeeping. Ursula was an ordinary girl who provided an ordinary act of kindness. As Peal continues… “Not having much money herself, but realizing the vast extent of poverty in New York, she decided to buy a dress and give it to some child in the ghetto. At the department store she asked the doorman what part of the city was poorest, got directions from a policeman to Harlem, walked a number of blocks, and eventually found…
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