The Gentle Heart
					Coarse appearance---bereft of style--a youth to culture and its claims. With heart as gentle as a lamb, perhaps we'll never know his name. For child thats sick with fever high, took off his coat and made a bed. Tenderly, he laid her there In grocery cart--she seemed as dead. He gently brushed a strand of hair that stubbornly refused to move, from off her cheek and over eye, and pushed the cart out of my view!
	And though the scene was so short lived, it found a place within my heart. This docile man betrayed his looks as he made a bed within the cart. Judge Not! Judge Not! We have been told. For we can never see inside. And seldom do we know all facts-- our judgments often are not wise. And once again, he came in view, as he checked his groceries through, I watched and saw him take a sack, and help the boy to fill them too! This man with kindness, prone to help, how many more like him we need. This world cries out, the hungry, sick.  Let someone hear---Let someone heed! He is a man of unique wealth, a type of riches that aren't bought. By this world's standards, often vain, all too often are not sought. Thank you for the lesson shared.  Such wisdom, priceless and not new. We need so often to review the words which God said were true! “The Lord does not look at the things man looks at.  Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”  I Samuel 16:7b Maxine Tolbert Trigleth