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QUENTIN SAID

This is a response I made to one of Terry's thread. He had listed 13 things he held to be true.

7. To leave the world a little better for your having been in it comes very very close to having a purpose in a life worth living. Help somebody/anybody each day. Even in one small way.That's not a bad way to live. You might start the most wonderful chain reaction and an explosion of goodness.

Top of the list for me...

Sometime back was standing in line to buy some smokes. There was an older gentleman in front whom the store refused to cash a pittance of a retirement check. The gentleman said "You've done it before"..."Sir we don't do THAT anymore"....along comes a manager..."No, CAN"T DO THAT"..."How much does he owe, I said?"..."Such and such"..."Give him two more and ring it on my bill"....That old gentleman asked me three times: "Sir, what can I do for you?"...."..."Have a nice day, when the time comes you'll know what to do"

I tell that story to tell this one......Left back tire on my car was going flat. Tooled around to Gibson Hardware and bought Fix-a-Flat. That can wasn't working right and my tire was getting flatter by the second, also had no jack nor spare. "Got a problem?"...."My tire, Fix-a-Flats not working." "I got a pump that works off car lighter, we'll hook it up and inflate the tire." Making a long story short, that young man went into the hardware store and bought another pump, needle nose pliers and a flat fixing kit. He not only aired the tire, he patched the hole. He GAVE me everything he had purchased saying: "Might need it and no don't want any money."

Having been a jw I can tell you so called WORLDLY PEOPLE ARE NOT WICKED AND EVIL. There are kind helpful people every where who want NOTHING in return for there acts of generosity.

I believe our Creator was showing me a truth. A tool to be used in everyday life. We ALL know the Bible passages "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.".......Parrable of the "Good Samaritin"...What are are your thoughts?

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Vinegar tasts better in freedom
than honey in slavery

How can you unterstand a thing unless you know it?
How can you know a thing unless you understand it?

PSACRAMENTO SAID

ARK:
Acts
of
Random
Kindness.

That is truly the ARK that saves is from the flood of what is bad in this world.
It doesn't take much, it just takes us doing what we know to be right.
We don't change the world, that is too big a job for anyone.
We change ourselves ( And only through Christ can be done that completely) and we treat others as we would want them to treat Us.
We love.
Think about it this way, if every other person treated just 1 person with love, then the whole world would be treating each other with love.
It's just that easy AND Just that hard.
Why Hard?
I don't know, you tell me.

ZOE SAID

ARK, I love this thought

TEC SAID

That people are so surprised when someone does a kind thing for them, tells me that we do not do enough kind things for people. Not meaning friends and family... that is easier. But total strangers. And even more than total strangers... doing kindness to those who have wronged us.

There are a lot of kind and loving people out there.

Peace,
tammy

PSACRAMENTO SAID



It was in the movie Evan Almighty.

JUSTMOM SAID

Paul I do love that also.... ARK!

Quentin...I do hear ya! Anybody remember the movie "Pay it forward"???
It is the same concept.
Do something/anything even small and when someone says "Thank you..what can I do for you?" I say "Pay it forward"
We all have been in a situation where we have needed something done for us and so understand how good it feels to be able to do something for someone.

And yes out in this big world, there are a lot of nice people dispite what the WT says. In first coming out I was amazed that there WERE parents who DID really LOVE their children. LOL

As to why so hard???

Despite what some of us feel and know to be kind and loving, there are those that only feel that the world owes them, not that they owe anything to anybody else. And so for whatever reason they are falling behind, whether it be pain, abuse, neglect etc... that they cannot let go of......
this is where for us the challenge may come in. "To DO" for them and LOVE them ANYWAYS!

Just a thought
Love justmom