THE   CUTE  LITTLE    BUTTON


                                                            A  Sweet  Story  of   True   Love


                                                                                   By


                                                                 Christina   Walden  Ehn


                                                Once   upon a time   there  was a cute little button.


                                          She was very  much in love with a handsome buttonhole that lived nearby.
                                  
                                          She cried and cried all alone every day.    Until one day, she worked up enough 
                      courage to go and visit the handsome buttonhole.  


                                  "Oh,"  she cried.   "I think you are the handsomest, kindest, sweetest buttonhole I 
                      have ever  seen.   I was wondering if  you could find it in your heart  to let me be your own special                               button."


                               The handsome buttonhole  wrapped himself around the cute little button and gave her a great                             big hug.


                             "I'm so touched that you love me,"  the handsome buttonhole said.   For he was kind
                       as well as handsome.    "But we don't belong to ourselves.    We belong to a tailor   who is
            putting us  onto a jacket he is making.   If one button gets into the wrong buttonhole,   then the next 
            button gets into the wrong buttonhole.   And the front of the jacket won't lie flat.   It will be full of lumps.
                And the last button on the end won't get any buttonhole at all."


                          "I belong to that button over there."
                 The handsome buttonhole pointed to his own special button.    She was so pretty it near gave him fits.  
                  But he didn't mention that to the cute little button.   For he was kind and understanding, as well as                             handsome.


                         The cute little button began to cry.


                          But can we still be friends?"  she asked through her tears.
                           "Why, of course,"  the handsome buttonhole said.   "We  belong to the same jacket.  We'll
                see each other every day."


                            So the cute little button went back to get acquainted with her own buttonhole.
                            He was a kind, handsome, faithful, loving, buttonhole.     He did have a tendency to fray at the
                 corners,   and she would pop out once in a while.
                            But, in general, she was content.
                           
                             But every day, she would see the handsome buttonhole through her tears, and  call out, 
                   "Hi!  I love you!"
                             And the handsome buttonhole would smile kindly,  and call back,  "Hi!  I love you, too!"
                            And they all lived reasonably happy ever after.
                                    And the tailor was very pleased with the jacket he had made.


                           And the moral of this story is,   stay in the hole where God put you, 
                    or you might make lumps.


                   


      
       (c)  2005   Rose Pappas
              The Cute Little Button








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