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The Beggar’s Plate
from December 2020
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The Beggar’s Plate
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by Rhonda Lane
When my parents were first married, my father father, overhearing the conversation and also knowing agreed to move into his mother-in-law’s home there was not enough to share, spoke up from his place in order to help support her and her young son at the table, saying, “He can have mine.” Now, this was as well as his own new bride. no small gesture for a strapping young man with a hearty
The family home was in a very rural area of Northern appetite for his wife and mother-in-law’s scrumptious Murray County along Highway 411, which at that time cooking after a hard day’s work building houses or in the early 1950s was a major thoroughfare between working as a telephone lineman. Knoxville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia. The traffic was When we make the decision to come to Christ after we not all mechanical, however, as many wayfarers and drifters have walked the treacherous path of life’s highway, we too frequently followed its course in search of something better, are nothing more than beggars. We ask for the nourishment I suppose. These travelers would sometimes stop randomly of grace with nothing to offer in return except an empty at homes along the way to ask for a free meal. plate stained with the scraps of past sins and bad decisions.
One evening, the little family was just sitting down Christ takes that plate, washes it clean with His blood, and to supper when an unexpected knock came at the door. hands it back to us piled high with generous helpings of My mother answered, and indeed, it was yet another forgiveness, mercy, and grace. When we apologize that we beggar asking for a meal. Knowing that on this particular have no righteousness with which to pay for this sustenance, occasion, there was only enough food to feed her small Christ replies, “You can have Mine.” family, my mother prepared to turn the beggar away. My
About The Author Rhonda Lane is a native of Dalton, Georgia, and is an orphaned, old maid, and only child trying to find her way in the world and lose herself in Jesus Christ.
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