“For I gave you an example that you should also do as I did to you” (John 13:15).
In the middle of a snow storm, in midtown New York City, a woman stopped her car at a red light and saw “a frail, hunched-over, homeless man wearing an ancient baseball cap and leaning against a stone planter.”
A clean-cut warmly dressed, athletic-looking young man moved toward the homeless man. The youth first offered a container of coffee and then placed a packaged cake and napkin on the rim of the planter. He waited for the old man to remove the lid from the coffee and to swallow a sip. He then pressed a dollar and change into the gnarled free hand. The respectful attitude and graciousness with which the gifts were given were obvious.
An appreciative smile from deep within transformed the wrinkled face like an unfolding rose. After bestowing a friendly pat on the back, the young man loped across the street as the…
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