But
when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand
is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your
Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. – Matthew 6:
3-4
He was one of the toughest men I have ever
met. Still laying brick and block a
decade past the age most men retire, he reveled in watching twenty-year-old brick-layers
sitting exhausted on the sidelines while he continued working. The product of
years of hard labor and a horrible accident as a toddler, his hands were like
vice grips. When he approached you for a
handshake he would say, “Give me three fingers.” I learned early on to only give him two
fingers because if you gave him three, he would break the one in the
middle. Wow! He was strong.
He was dedicated to his tasks, dedicated to his
family, and dedicated to his faith in God.
He was a man’s man. Yet, as I was driving through the Kentucky
