The tailor

A certain tailor lived in a poor neighborhood. He was the only tailor in town and served everyone kindly  but also with a good price.  One of the local inhabitants told him one day, ‘Why don’t you help the poor in town, just like that butcher does, who often gives meat for free to some of our poor neighbors?’ The tailor didn’t say much other than a simple comment ‘The Lord knows our intentions, and He knows our motives for what we do.’ The man who asked the question was livid and started spreading rumors that the tailor is very selfish and never helps the poor in town. Months went by and the tailor got sick, but hardly anybody went to see him. Eventually he died and only a few relatives attended his funeral. There was also the butcher in attendance. A month after his funeral, everyone noticed that the butcher stopped giving meat to the poor people in town. When people asked about this, he answered  them by saying, ‘The meat I gave out was not from my own money, but from the tailor. Every month he would give me a large sum of money to use for the meat distribution. And now that he is gone, I have no extra money to give out in meat portions for free.’ How cruel and insensitive of us to judge only on what we see on the outside!