In Grandma's Attic by Arleta Richardson

Author:Arleta Richardson [Richardson, Arleta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: secrets, stories, grandma
Publisher: David C. Cook
Published: 2011-12-25T05:00:00+00:00

Grandma shook her head at the memory.

“We all have to learn some way,” she said, “but I’m sure there’s a better way than that to do it. Sometimes we act the same way with God—He tells us not to do things, but we try them anyway. By the time we’re sorry about it, we’ve been hurt and feel just a little foolish.”

I slowly finished my cocoa while I thought about Grandma’s story.

12

You Can’t Always Believe

Grandma called me in from the yard. “I thought I asked you to put these slippers away,” she said.

“But I did, Grandma,” I replied. “I put them away when you told me to.”

“Then how did they get back out here?” asked Grandma. “You shouldn’t say you have done something when you haven’t. Now put them away, please.”

I picked up the slippers and walked slowly to my room. I had put them away when she told me to, and she didn’t believe me.

Later that morning I sat in the big kitchen waiting for the cookies to come out of the oven. Skip, the old farm dog, suddenly appeared around the corner dragging one of my slippers!

“Look, Grandma!” I said. “There’s how my slippers got back out here!”

“Well,” Grandma said to Skip, “I ought to use that slipper on you. Someone else got the scolding that you deserved.

“I’m sorry, child, that I didn’t believe you,” she said to me. “Next time I won’t be so quick to blame you until I find out what happened.”

Grandma took the cookies from the oven, and as she poured a glass of milk for me, she chuckled.

“I remember how something like that happened to my brother Roy,” she said. “It wasn’t very funny at the time, at least not to Roy, but we have laughed about it since.”

“Tell me about it, Grandma,” I said.

Grandma slid another pan of cookies into the oven, then sat down at the table.

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