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Shylynne
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« Reply #31 on: December 19, 2004, 08:37:34 PM » |
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"Every man, my brother; every woman, my sister. Each members of a common family, for we are all brothers. Many of us, however, think we are but step brothers, not kin to each other. Like the old Christian sitting on the roadside, who had just taken the lid off of his dinner bucket to eat dinner.
An old tramp walked up and said, " Mister, give me a little piece of bread. I have no money, no home, no bread."
The old Christian cut him a slice of bread and started to hand it to him, but said, " Before I give it to you, I will ask the blessing."
He looked up and said, " Our Father, which is in heaven, bless this bread we eat. Amen."
The old tramp looked at him, and said, " Our Father in heaven?"
" Yes," said the old Christian, " He is our Father."
" Then," said the old tramp, " if He is our Father, we are brothers, aint we? "
The old Christian replied, " Yes, we are brothers."
Then spoke the old tramp, " If we are brothers, cut me a thicker piece of bread, and put some meat on it."
My idea of brotherly love is this. I have two brothers in the flesh. If either of them had a bed in his home, a plate at his table, a dollar in his pocket, or a drop of blood in his veins too good for me when I should need it, the same I would not call my brother at all. We are brothers and we should be kind."
-author unknown
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