Grace

The news has been pretty much awful these days, so a recent Ruben Navarrette column was a welcome interlude. A family was out to dinner with their two children and the grandparents. The older child, an 8-year old with epilepsy, threw a tantrum while the parents looked on in embarrassment. The staff came over to clean up his food on the floor when the family spotted another waitress heading their way. Instead of a lecture, though, she had a note from an anonymous patron watching the scene. The note simply said, "God only gives special children to special people." And they put their money where their mouth was - the same anonymous diner had also bought their dinner. Nice touch. Serious class. Grace in a grace-deficient world. Pay it forward.

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