This story touched me so I wanted to share it with my friends.This is about this wonderful new family ... Our grandson Daniel, his wife Heather and their little 4 year old son Jaxon, they also have a 2 month old baby boy named Jude... Daniel and Heather knew just how they wanted their beach wedding to look ..so a few weeks before the wedding Daniel drove to the beach and brought back a pickup truck load of big drift to make his "chuppah" ...or 'hoopa' as we called it, to stand under during the wedding .. he built it at home and bolted it together so he could disassemble it and take it to the beach and also to bring it back home after the wedding .. They had picked the perfect spot for it in their front yard in front of their bedroom window where a wisteria is growing .. it would not only be pretty but it would also shade the bedroom ... The wedding was beautiful and the 'hoopa' was perfect .. The morning after the wedding Daniel and his Dad left the little beach house that had been rented by the wedding families just a block from the beach to get the hoopa .. When they got there Daniel's face dropped because 'it was gone' .. as they turned to walk away they saw a group of homeless men sitting around a bonfire and parts of the hoopa were still sticking out of the fire .. Daniel was devastated ..his dad said they should go talk to the men but Daniel said they should just forget about it since it was gone and there was nothing they could do about now .. Daniel walked back to the beach house but his Dad walked over to the men and told them they had burned his sons hoopa ...three of the men hung their heads and wouldn't look at him .. but one of the men said they were very sorry but they thought it was just left and that no one would want it ... at that time Daniel and his little son Jaxon walked up and they heard Daniel's dad telling him that the two baskets the hoopa was standing in belonged to his wife so he would like to have them back ..one of the men looked up and said 'no' we're going to keep them .. but the man who had been talking told him it didn't belong to them and they needed to give it back .. so they took the baskets and walked away .. as they were walking Jaxon asked his Dad ..."what happened Dad" ...his dad answered .."they burned the hoopa" ... Jaxon asked .."why" ..his Dad replied .."because that's where they live and they were cold" .. Jaxon asked .."But why don't they have a house?" .. and his Father said ..."Because they are homeless"... They walked back to the beach house and Daniel packed up a box of food left from the wedding and he and his little son took it back to the men who had burned his hoopa.
So Daniel and Heather will not have their wedding hoopa in their yard but Jaxon will have learned a lesson about love for your fellow man that hopefully he will never forget.
I just wanted to share.
Betty, Although it must have been disappointing for your grandson not to have the keepsake he wanted from his wedding, he taught his own son the lesson of forgiveness and generosity. He was raised well...
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