“What did you give up for Lent?”
“I gave up chocolate, and I can’t believe how hard it’s been!”
“I know. Me, too. But I’m really proud of myself.”
“Same here. I even had three people tell me yesterday that they couldn’t believe that I — ”
And suddenly a cough interrupts, a little too closely.
They turn to see who would be so rude.
He says, “Sorry, but, uhm, couldn’t help but overhear.
“I tell people that when they give, when they pray, and even when they fast, to do it quietly.
“Even unobtrusively.”
They look at each other uncomfortably.
They’ve read about something like this.
In that big leather book. In Matthew 6:1-18.
They look back at the one who interrupted them.
What happens next is up to you.
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