Boogie with his New Soccer Shorts

My ten-year-old grandson Elian loves stuffed animals. According to him, “in the stuffed animal kingdom, they’re for real.” He recently gave a pair of his favorite soccer shorts to Boogie, my husband’s 35-year-old stuffed bear. Boogie’s old shorts were torn and tattered after all those decades.

The look of delight on Elian’s face when he saw Boogie with his new shorts confirmed for me that his gift to that old bear was a lot more than a pair of shorts. It was pure love.

What a great example for the rest of us!

“You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet