"Finding a reason to smile"

ONCE UPON A TIME A HOMELESS MAN LIVING ON THE STREETS WHO HAD LOST EVERYTHING....HIS FAMILY,HIS HOME,HIS JOB HE WAS PRAYING ONE DAY...HE ASK GOD TO BLESS HIM WITH SOMETHING SIMPLE...JUST SOMETHING ANYTHING TO MAKE HIM SMILE...MANY DAYS HAD PASSED SINCE HE PRAYED...IT WAS A COLD, RAINY,AND WINDY DAY...HE WAS WALKING ALONG A SET OF RAILROAD TRACKS HE WAS SOAKED TO THE BONE AND VERY COLD...HIS LIFE WAS AT IT'S LOWEST POINT...HE WAS TRULEY READY TO BREAK...ALL OF A SUDDEN HE HEARD A WIMPERING COMING FROM A DEEP DITCH ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS....HE LOOKED DOWN INTO THE DITCH AND SEEN A SMALL PUPPY LAYING IN A PUDDLE OF WATER SHIVERING AND CRYING FROM THE RAIN AND COLD WEATHER..HE REACHED DOWN INTO THE THE DITCH AND PULLED THE SMALL PUP FROM WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A SURE DEATH....HE UNBUTTONED HIS SHIRT AND PUT THE SMALL PUP CLOSE TO HIS BODY TO KEEP HIM WARM...AS THE RAIN POURED DOWN HE LOOKED UP AHEAD ON THE RAILROAD TRACK AND SEEN A BOX CAR...HE CLIMBED INTO THE BOX CAR IT WAS DRY INSIDE AND HE FOUND A BUNDLE OF RAGS AND HE DRIED HIMSELF AND THE PUPPY OFF...HE COVERED HIMSELF AND THE PUPPY WITH THE RAGS AND THEY BOTH FELL ASLEEP...THE MAN AWAKENED SEVERAL HOURS LATER TO THE WET LITTLE TOUNGE OF THE PUPPY LICKING HIS FACE AND WAGGING HIS TAIL....FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ALONG TIME THE HOMELESS MAN SMILED...HE PUT THE SMALL PUPPY IN A BOX AND LEFT THE BOX CAR AND WITH THE LAST FEW DOLLARS THE MAN HAD LEFT TO HIS NAME HE WENT TO THE STORE AND BOUGHT A LOAF OF BREAD SOME MEAT AND A PINT OF MILK...HE HURRIED BACK TO THE BOX CAR AND WHILE HE WAS WALKING ALONG HE SMILED AGAIN AND HE THANKED GOD FOR ANSWERING HIS PRAYER...THE MAN AND THE PUPPY ATE THE FOOD AND THEN HUDDLED NEXT TO EACH OTHER AND BOTH OF THEM FELT THE LOVE OF GOD...ALWAYS REMEMBER NO MATTER HOW LOW YOUR LIFE CAN GET...SOMEHOW,SOMEWHERE THERE WILL BE A REASON TO SMILE....