A Brother Like That
A man named Paul received an automobile from his brother as a
Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out of his office, a
street
urchin was walking around the shining new car admiring it. "Is this your
car,
Mister?" he asked.
Paul nodded. "My brother gave it to me for Christmas." The boy
was
astounded. "You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't cost you
nothing?
Boy, I wish..." He hesitated.
Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going
to
wish he had a brother like that. But what this lad said jarred Paul all the
way
down to his heels.
"I wish," the boy went on, "that I could be a brother like
that."
Paul looked at the boy in astonishment, then impulsively he
added,
"Would you like to take a ride in my automobile?"
"Oh yes, I'd love that." After a short ride, the boy turned
with
his eyes aglow and said, "Mister, would you mind driving in front of my
house?"
Paul smiled a little. He thought he knew what the lad wanted.
He
wanted to show his neighbours that he could ride home in a big automobile.
But
Paul was wrong again. "Will you stop where those two steps are?" the boy
asked.
He ran up the steps. Then in a little while Paul heard him
coming
back, but he was not coming fast. He was carrying his little crippled
brother.
He sat him down on the bottom step, then sort of squeezed up against him and
pointed to the car.
"There she is, Buddy, just like I told you upstairs. His
brother
gave it to him for Christmas and it didn't cost him a cent. And someday I'm
gonna give you one just like it...and you can see for yourself all the
pretty
things in the Christmas windows that I've been trying to tell you
about."
Paul got out and lifted the lad into the front seat of his car.
The
shining-eyed older brother climbed in beside him and the three of them began
a
memorable holiday ride.
That Christmas Eve, Paul learned what Jesus meant when he had
said:
"It's more blessed to give..."
I want a faith that possesses me.”
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