Every morning, before dropping her son off at school, my friend would stop on the way to work to grab a quick breakfast. They tended to frequent the restaurant every morning grabbing an egg sandwich, juice, and coffee for herself, milk for her son.
One day she an additional breakfast. When they had eaten and walked out of the door, she stopped and said good morning to a
man who was sitting alone outside the restaurant and
him the additional breakfast she had bought. He
her, grinning, telling her it was the first meal he had in a great many days. She couldn’t help but feel
and was glad she finally took action.
She told her son that she had him every day that week outside the restaurant and that no one, herself included, had
to offer him food, drink, comfort, etc. She further
that homelessness can happen to anyone, the importance of service to others and
acts of kindness were.
And so her kindness tradition… each day thereafter she and her son
to buy and supply the homeless gentleman with breakfast. The
was going on until they
several years later but the lesson was
implanted in her son by then.
She as she told me that this kindness legacy
to her son, who remembered this childhood tradition and lesson. Now a college graduate and
employed, her son stops every day at Starbucks for his morning cup of coffee and purchases a
for a homeless person nearby before commuting to the
.
What a great family legacy that she can pass along to her children as well!
A. small B. same C. crowded D. ordinary
A. received B. demanded C. expected D. ordered
A. strong B. kind C. homeless D. sick
A. handed B. bought C. supplied D. provided
A. remembered B. thanked C. respected D. paid
A. grateful B. sorry C. anxious D. good
A. helped B. seen C. disliked D. missed
A. agreed B. refused C. stopped D. appeared
A. shouted B. replied C. argued D. explained
A. what B. which C. how D. where
A. ended B. began C. met D. presented
A. hesitated B. hurried C. continued D. needed
A. moment B. life C. practice D. performance
A. moved away B. got around C. turned down D. broke up
A. hardly B. firmly C. happily D. slightly
A. smiled B. cheered C. sighed D. wondered
A. came B. occurred C. went D. belonged
A. regularly B. carefully C. entirely D. gainfully
A. chance B. tent C. shirt D. breakfast
A. city B. office C. house D. school