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It seems just when "old age" started to be fun for me, STUFF began to happen.  As a result of a botched hip replacement, walking has now become very difficult. Instead of "skipping along", I now have to be grateful that I am even able to "wobble along."

So, when I get to Trinity on Sunday mornings and cannot find a handicapped or nearby parking spot available, I usually go back home.  But one morning, I decided to try to make it into the Education Building anyway.


 

About halfway there, I realized I had made a mistake & was trying to walk while holding on to the chain link fence.  Several people passed by, but then I saw a lady coming toward me.  She had left her husband & children on the sidewalk and was coming toward me asking if she could help me.  Her name was Sony (I didn't get her last name) & I very gratefully took her arm to safely get to the Fishermen class.  That morning, Bryant Martin gave a very insightful & enlightening lesson on the "Good Samaritan".  He described in extensive detail the tremendous effort the man had made, both physically and financially, to rescue a badly injured stranger.


 

It occurred to me then that it doesn't always take such a tremendous effort, physically or financially,  to be a good Samaritan-simple things can also qualify someone to be a "Good Samaritan" .  Sony might not consider herself to be a "Good Samaritan" but when she went out of her way to help me she did more  than she would give herself credit for.  Even small things, such as letting someone go ahead in a long line, being a good neighbor, sending food to a sick person or a mourning family, or something as simple as holding a door open for someone might be more helpful than we realize.

 

Surely these things would be considered to be "walking in his footsteps"  and when something is done for the least of us, it is also done for "Him".


 

PRAYER: My prayer is one of "THANKS"  because--, in spite of everything that has ever happened to me, I have still been given more blessings than not.


 

Marjorie Hodge 

Trinity United Methodist Church
4000 NW 53rd Ave | Gainesville, FL 32653
352.376.6615
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Office Hours: Monday - Thursday, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Friday, 8:30 am - 1:30 pm