Growing up, our driveway was on Route 50. Mom stayed home when I was under 5 years old. I can still remember the bums ( guys down on their luck) knocking on the door saying,"I'm hungry....do you have anything to eat?" Mom would say , " Go sit under the shade tree and I'll get you something." She would fry them up a real hamburger... on a wheat bun toasted in the burger grease with butter added. She always decked it out full with whatever onions, lettuce, or whatever was growing in the garden. Add to this mom's homemade sweet pickles and homemade beets on the side. A tall glass of cold milk rounded out the meal. She served everyone like he was a King.....
I asked why she did this one time. Her reply: "I was starving when I was little...Times were tough in the Great depression. I asked God to feed me and He did. I promised to return the favor. If anyone hungry shows up and I have food, they eat with us. If I have food, they get it."
Deep in my Soul I know that mom thought any one of those bums could be the King of Kings checking on her Promise. She never failed up to the day she died....
“The essence of having faith in what Jesus had faith in and being a Jesus Follower is to engage in a very simple but extraordinarily difficult practice that is best captured in a single word: empathy.”
― Robert S. McElvaine, Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America
“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman
“Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.”
― George Eliot
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.”
― Mark Twain, What Is Man?
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.”
― Henry David Thoreau