The one who is gracious to the poor lends to the Lord,
and the Lord will repay him for his good deed.
Proverbs 19:7
(New English Bible).
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We were laying in bed one evening and my wife asked me what was my happiest childhood memory?
It was the day my two friends came and asked if I was coming with them. It was a spring morning, and we took the ferry across to Kelvin to visit the Glasgow Kelvinside museum.
We were there for several hours and on our return, we rubbed our tummies with hunger. A man said, ‘Here’s a half-crown, buy yourselves ice-cream.’
We jumped up and down singing ‘Chips, glorious chips!’ Then… we stopped…went silent. The man told us to buy ice-cream.
But he just smiled, and we jumped up and down again singing ‘Chips, glorious chips!’
And I would have to say, that was my happiest childhood memory; the day the kind man smiled and thought it was okay to buy chips.