Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 16:14
As I was picking up the yogurt container on my nightstand that I had just knocked over, I noticed the small plaque. It read: God is greater than any problem I have. I cannot look at that plaque without remembering who gave it to me. I’m sure he has no idea that I still think of him or how much he touched my heart, probably more than anything else I’ve ever received.
I was about 13 years old working in the concession stands at church camp. It was a week of church services for all ages at a campground. I worked the window at the far end, and one of my regulars that week was probably about my age who came with his parents as he needed them to care for him and help him. I loved seeing their smiling faces and chatting with them. As the end of the week drew near and the last time I saw the three of them, the son, with a big smile on his face, gave me this plaque. I thought it was the most touching and sweetest thing ever. He obviously had his own struggles, and here he was thinking of something he could do for me. He has no idea all the hard days that I had ahead of me and how that simple, little plaque has been with me on every single one of them as a reminder that God is greater. Forty-four years later, I still remember him and his family and think of them. And I’m still so touched. He showed me the most pure act of kindness.
Never underestimate the power of an act of kindness. He may have even thought that someone like him who needed someone to take care him would have nothing to offer someone else or that would matter to someone else. Oh, if he only knew. He was the perfect person to show me the love of Christ.
We might even think that because we only see someone briefly that what we say and do won’t matter 44 years from now. Please let this story act as a reminder that it can.
We never know the true power an act of kindness will have or how many years later they will still think about it.
We never know the true power an act of kindness will have or how far and long that ripple will go.
“I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
-William Penn
Let all that you do be done in love.
1 Corinthians 16:14
Go make a difference in the world with simple acts of love and kindness. -Topaz
