A GOOD DEED

170 – Friday, June 19, 2009 As I sat at the computer this morning completing a blog, Cynthia asked me if what we were hearing was the sound of a lawn mower in the neighborhood. As I twisted the rod on the mini-blinds to peer out the bay window of the den, the sight I caught surprised me – it was my young friend from across the street, Christian, and he was in my yard mowing my grass. Chris had asked me several days ago if I was too proud to accept someone doing something for me. I told him that, perhaps, if he had asked that question twenty years ago, I may have been prideful, however, the Lord had shown me time and again that when we decline another’s offer to do a good deed, we eradicate the blessing they may have received from Him. I am blessed when others accept my assistance and I have learned that valuable lesson which now allows me to accept favors. Thank you, my friend, for your ministry to me this sweltering day, and may the Lord heap a grand blessing upon you that you have earned through a kindness and the easing a burden from an elder! The hardest part of that statement for me these days is the admission of the ‘elder’ part!

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