More Honey

For years a grandmother had waited for years to have a new carpet. She wanted this white, shag carpet. Finally, finally she got it. They installed it and she watched the sunlight come in on it, and she was just thrilled. She invited all her neighbors and friends to come over to see and admire it.

The next Saturday, David, her little grandson came over to visit. What happened was, he was bringing a little jar of honey from their own bee hives. And so he runs across the carpet, and you know the story, he falls and it spills and begins to soak into the carpet. Little David says, “Oh, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.”

His grandmother takes a step back and she thinks for a minute and she says, “It’s okay, David, I know where I can get some more honey.”

Source: Betsy Kylstra, in a talk given at a Partners in Harvest conference in Toronto from Sept 17-21, 2007.