A Christmas message 2021

On Veteran's day  I felt the need to stop in a small boutique store.  While there a man  who works for Waste management entered. He  had just emptying the dumpsters outside.

I said unto him, "It is veteran's day let me buy you a coffee?"

"I can not take it. He replied. "For I am not a veteran."

"But you know a veteran ,or have family that are Veterans?"

"Yes my brother is a veteran." he replied.

" So accept it  in your brothers name," And turn to pay for the man's coffee and the chocolate chip pumpkin bread.

That evening the man from waste management was at his brothers house and told a story of the kind stranger. Listening was, Eve, his brother's youngest step daughter,  A seed was being planted

The following was the original ending. I wanted  something softer, where the message was  presented within the story  more like a parable.  

"I give it to you in your brother's name. So you know of the   joy of  a strangers gift. . And you can speak of a strangers kind act."