What taste do you leave in others mouths?
There was an old
man who was admitted in a hospital.
A young man
visited him every day, and sat with him for more than one hour. He helped him
to eat his food and take his shower.
Then he took him
walking in the garden of the hospital. He would bring him back to his room and
help him to lie down.
He went away after
reassuring himself that the old man was doing well.
One day the nurse
entered his room to give him medicine and inspect his condition. She said to
him: "May the Lord be always gracious to your kind and caring son. Every
day he visits you and shows great care."
The old man looked
at her and closed his eyes and said to her: "I wished it was one of my
children. This is an orphan from the neighbourhood where we live. I met him one
day in the past crying at the door of a Church after his father died. I
comforted him and bought candy for him. I neither saw him nor talked to him for
a very long time.
When he grew up
and came to discover where my wife and I were living, he started visiting us
every day to inspect our conditions. When I later fell sick, he took my old
wife to his home. He now comes to the hospital to see to my treatment every day.
One day I asked
him: "My son why do you have to deal with us and care about us?"
He simply smiled
and then said: "The taste of the candy is still in my mouth."
*Moral of the
story:*
Plant well. If you
do, God will not forget the beautiful deed wherever you have planted it.
A beautiful deed
will only be harvested by those who planted it, no matter how long it takes.
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