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Topic:
It Is More Blessed To Give
A friend of mine 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 shiny 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. "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 the 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 was astonished. He asked the boy, "Would you like a
ride?"
After a short ride, the boy turned and his eyes aglow, said,
"Will you stop where those two steps are?"
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 ... then 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 to 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 is more blessed to give..."
By Dan Clark from Condensed Chicken Soup for the Soul, Copyright 1996
by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Patty Hansen
Title: A Brother Like That
Data Source: Internet - Chicken Soup Of The Day
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