When I received these little gifts, I often thought of a comment our next-door neighbor made after he left
that first morning." Did you keep that awful looking man last night? I turned him away. You can lose roomers
by accommodating such people!"
Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But oh! If only they could have known him, perhaps their
illnesses would have been easier to bear. I know our family always will be grateful to have known him; from
him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint and the good with gratitude.