It
is important for all of us to take the time to slow down and not always walk
past those who need a helping hand. It may be an elderly person who cannot open
a door they are trying to enter because it is too heavy. It might be a mother
to get all her kids in the car or in a cart to shop for groceries and does not
notice she dropped something important.
We being a supposedly civilized human race need to put our self-center wants aside and do something for others. Help your neighbor by mowing their grass while they are at work all day. Go volunteer at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter you could even make sandwiches to hand out to the ones who you see everyday as you go about your busy schedule. You may see them sitting on the side of the road or in a park with all their worldly possessions in an old grocery cart, old baby stroller or just a garbage bag.
It would only take one act of kindness to make you want to do more. When we stop looking at our lives in a way of what I can get from you but rather what I can do for you we all would be much happier. The principle is the same as the movie “Pay it forward” You do one good act and then that person doe's one good act and so on, and so on. We could never give as much as God did. He gave us His son for our sins and that was the ultimate gift of giving to others. Just as God’s selfless act changed our lives (His children) so can a selfless act from you change another’s person’s life. So give a helping hand you might actually enjoy yourself.
34. So he went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; and he set him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
2. that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.