First time Scoutmaster Minute

[ScoutBox]

I had the chance last meeting to serve as the Troop SM While our SM was away. I took advantage of my chance and had a SM Minute, something that's not done in our Troop sadly. Anyway, I had found a great little story about Service, and told the story. Afterwards I saw that there were a few boys who had cried after my minute. I was a bit surprised, and touched by this..

[Gary_Miller]

The best SM minutes are the ones that get the boys to thinking. The crying is a good sign it means you got them to thinking.

[ScoutBox]

I can only agree.. Seems that several got it, and hopefully it made an impact..

[Scoutfish]

Can you post it, or a link to it here.

 

As a CubMaster, there are very, very few CM minutes, so I have to adapt alot of SM minutes to the cubs age level.

[ScoutBox]

This is "The Beggar Man" page 45 of the book, The Scouter's Companion. written by Ivan Turgenev,

Novelist and Playwright.

 

 

I was passing along the street when a beggar, a decrepit old man, stopped me.

 

Swollen, tearful eyes, blue lips, bristling rags, unclean sores.... Oh, how horribly had poverty gnawed that unhappy being!

 

He stretched out to me a red, bloated, dirty hand.... He moaned, he bellowed for help.

 

I began to rummage in all my pockets.... Neither purse, nor watch, nor even handkerchief did I find.... I had taken nothing with me.

 

And the beggar still waited ... and extended his hand, which swayed and trembled feebly.

 

Bewildered, confused, I shook that dirty, tremulous hand heartily....

 

"Blame me not, brother; I have nothing, brother."

 

The beggar man fixed his swollen eyes upon me; his blue lips smiled--and in his turn he pressed my cold fingers.

 

"Never mind, brother," he mumbled. "Thanks for this also, brother.--This also is an alms, brother."

 

I understood that I had received an alms from my brother.