A Warm Gift Left In His Basket June 7, 2012 – Posted by smileon  |
| It was early on a cold December morning. I was making a quick trip to the post office, and along the way, I saw a man riding his bicycle through the dirty, heavy slush, left over from last night’s snowfall.
He was dressed in a tattered, old black coat. A knit beanie cap covered his head. As he parked his bike on the sidewalk and went inside (to warm up, I assumed), I noticed that his hands were bare.
While he was out of sight, I reached to my back seat and grabbed a pair of thick leather gloves that belonged to one of my boys. Then, quickly, I ran to his bicycle and placed them in the basket that he had tied with twine to his handlebars. I hurried back to the warmth of my car and waited. Even though I had been in a hurry, I couldn’t leave without seeing that he got them. About twenty minutes passed.
I watched as he returned to his bike, picked up the gloves, looked around for a moment. Then, he put them on and slowly rode away.
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