Workmanship

He was maybe 14, a neighborhood kid looking for work. He said he could wash my car so I gave him a bucket, soap, rags and a sponge, pulled out the hose and let him get to it. Time passed. He banged on the door and said he was finished. I looked. The dirt on my car had been rearranged but I didn’t think highly of the workmanship. I told him so but gave him his price and sent him off. Twenty minutes later, a knock. The boy stood on the stoop and beside him a man. He said, “My son says you weren’t happy with his work.” The boy looked down, the man looked at me and I wondered where this was going. Then the man said, “If you don’t mind me using your water, I want to show my son how to wash a car.”

Go in peace to love and serve the Lord!

Josh