Timmy was a little five year old boy whose Mom loved him very much.
But being a worrier, she was concerned about him walking to school
when he started Kindergarten. She walked him to school the first
couple of days. But at the end of the week, he came home from
school and told his mother that he did not want her walking him to
school everyday. He wanted to be like the "big boys," he protested
loudly!

So she had an idea of how to handle it. She asked a neighbor, Mrs.
Goodnest, if she would please follow him to school in the mornings,
staying at a distance, so he probably wouldn't notice her.

Mrs. Goodnest said that since she was up early with her toddler
anyway, it would be a good way for them to get some exercise as
well.........so she agreed.

The next school day, Mrs. Goodnest and her little girl, Marcy, set
out following behind Timmy as he walked to school with another
neighbor boy he knew. She did this for the whole week.

As the boys walked and chatted, kicking stones and twigs, Timmy's
little friend noticed the same lady was following them, as she
seemed to do every day all week.

Finally he said to Timmy, "Have you noticed that lady following us
to school all week? Do you know her?"

Timmy nonchalantly replied, "Yeah, I know who she is."

The friend asked, "Well, who is she?"

"That's just Shirley Goodnest" Timmy replied, "and her daughter
Marcy."

"Shirley Goodnest? Who the heck is she and why is she following
us?"

"Well", Timmy explained, "every night my Mom makes me
say the 23rd Psalm with my prayers, 'cuz she worries about me so
much. And in the psalm, it says 'Shirley Goodnest and Marcy shall
follow me all the days of my life,' so I guess I'll just have to get
used to it!"

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