
It was just a small, unimportant encounter that lasted only a few minutes. But I found myself reliving it over and over again in the days and weeks that followed. It made me smile, that simple, unimportant event. I might well say it made my day! Unfortunately he doesn’t know what a lift he gave me just when I needed it most.
I hear people all the time saying, “I want to do something to make the world a better place but what can I really do? Nothing !” And yet by the simple gesture of offering me hand, this gentleman changed my world ~
Do we look to hard at finding some important difference to effect? Why do we feel that only those great differences count or even that they somehow count more? Have we not thrown a pebble into a pond and seen the ripples from that one small pebble moving out to the edges?
The writer of the Gospel according to Matthew quotes Jesus as saying in Matthew 22:39 “You shall love your neighbour as yourself.” Nothing is said anywhere in the scriptures, that I am aware of, that the more important the action is, the better it is. All are equal as an expression of loving our neighbour.
Unfortunately for this man, he will never know that he brightened my day and the day of those I subsequently came in contact with, only that he brought a smile to my face. I would like to be able to tell him, but I can’t.

We live in a society where the bottom line is all important … where results are measured as success. Building a school in Africa - that surely must be what Jesus meant by loving our neighbour! But so is giving someone a hand-up a curb.
Who has showed you this unconditional love lately? And more importantly perhaps, were you able to let them know the difference they made?
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