Give then receive

When  I  was  working  as  a  disc  jockey  in Columbus,  Ohio,  I  used  to  stop  at  a  local hospital on my way home. I would walk into different people's rooms and read Scripture to  them  or  talk  to  them.  It  was  a  way  of forgetting  about  my  problemsand  being thankful to God. It made a difference in the lives of those I visited. One time, it literally saved my life.One night, I came home at about two o'clock in the morning. As I began to open my door, a man came out from behind the side of my house and said. "Are you Les Brown?"I said "Yes, sir."He  said,  "I  was  sent  here  to  carry  out  a contract on you.""Me? Why?" I asked. He  said,  "Well,  there's  a  promoter  that's very  upset  about  the  money  you  cost  him when  you  said  that  the  entertainers  who were coming to town were not the original real group.""Are  you  going  to  do  something  to  me?"  I asked.He said, "No -I'll tell you why. My mother was  in  Grant  Hospital  and  she  wrote  me about  how  you  came  in  one  day  and  sat down and talked to her and read Scripture to her. She was so impressed that this morning disc  jockey,  who  didn't  know  her,  came  in and did that. She wrote me about you when I   was   in   the   Ohio   penitentiary.   I   was impressed with that and I've always wanted to meet you. When I heard the word out on the  street  that  somebody  wanted  to  knock you  off,"  he  said,  "I  told  them  about  you, about  thoughts  of  my  mother  and  others patients  in  the  hospital.  After  listening  to me,  they  accepted  to  leave  out  everything and let you peaceful."-Les Brown -