Child Knew Him Instantly

They flocked to church and sang the Christmas carols. Loudly and proudly, flaunting their Jesus pins, and their pretty children. Many were annoyed with the shabbily dressed beggar who asked for spare change As they walked up the hill to their star white church. Some spoke of him in whispers and laughed in the vestibule. No one invited him to join them. He was not familiar to them. The new Samaritan gave him ten dollars for a cup of coffee and a hot meal. Gladys Know-Everything saw this and reported it to her women. They cackled about it. Samaritans must be naïve. Too bad, they thought, thinking this weird man had been taken advantage of. Jesus saw all of this and more. He shook his head sadly. Dropped the ten spot into the hands of a child Who was walking up with her mother. She squeezed his hand and smiled, knowing Him instantly.