The little girl has only happy thoughts. Why, she gets to eat ice-cream! This is the third time in a week she has asked her father. He relented.
In the process she learned something: it pays to persevere.
Well, I bet she doesn't understand the big word; can’t even pronounce it. But she’s got the idea.
Her mother says that she is just like the father: loves ice-cream. She says that the little fellow has been having too much lately and that is the reason for her complaining stomach-ache for much of the past week.
He loves it – that her little girl is just like him. Got to be careful though; must refrain from giving her ice-cream. Not until her stomach is okay.
Sometimes, you need to persevere, to persist, to keep on asking. The Father who loves you will grant you the desire of your heart. At the right time.
And it is a happy day.
