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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. "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 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 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 and with his eyes aglow,
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 neighbors 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 some day 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..."

PRAYER
Our Father in heaven, we praise you for your glory, as seen in the
splendor of your continuing creation. We thank you for your gift.
Forgive us for our failure to share Jesus with others. Give us the
grace to have courage and strength to share Jesus with those we
encounter in all that we do and say. We ask this in Jesus Name. Amen.

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