IJMC - Ice Cream or Nutter Butters, What's the Difference?

Actually, there's a big difference...you don't usually get Ice Cream when 
you give blood or donate platelets. You get Nutter Butters and orange 
Hi-Q which makes it all good. And when you donate platelets, or at least 
when I do, you get to watch a movie. That's really cool. It's the middle 
of the summer and you're lying there cold and covered with a warm blanket 
and watching a movie while you're giving a part of yourself to help 
someone who really needs it. Then you get to eat Nutter Butters. As I 
said, it makes it all good.                                         -dave



Last week I took my children to a restaurant. My six-year-old son asked if
he could say grace.  As we bowed our heads he said, "God is good. God is
great. Thank you for the food, and I would even thank you more if mom gets
us ice cream for dessert. And Liberty and justice for all!  Amen!" 

Along with the laughter from the other customers nearby I heard a woman
remark, "That's what's wrong with this country.  Kids today don't even
know how to pray.  Asking God for ice-cream!  Why, I never!". Hearing
this, my son burst into tears and asked me, "Did I do it wrong?  Is God
mad at me?" 

As I held him and assured him that he had done a terrific job and God was
certainly not mad at him, an elderly gentleman approached the table. He
winked at my son and said, "I happen to know that God thought that was a
great prayer." 

"Really?" my son asked.  "Cross my heart."  Then in a theatrical whisper
he added (indicating the woman whose remark had started this whole thing),
"Too bad she never asks God for ice cream.  A little ice cream is good for
the soul sometimes." 

Naturally, I bought my kids ice cream at the end of the meal. My son
stared at his for a moment and then did something I will remember the rest
of my life. He picked up his sundae and without a word walked over and
placed it in front of the woman.  With a big smile he told her, "Here,
this is for you. Ice cream is good for the soul sometimes, and my soul is
good already."