ANGEL UNAWARE Become an Angel Unaware There is not one of us who does not meet someone in a given week who is not in need of encouragement, love, and mercy. There is the mother whose children are going to bed hungry for lack of food money. The elderly neighbor whose husband died, and whose children are too centered on themselves to check in on their lonely mom. The young college student down the hall in the dorm who has no place to go for Spring Break, or no caring family wanting to see him. There is the lonely bag lady, sitting on a park bench watching everyone avoid her. The world is full of lonely people in need of comfort, kindness, and mercy. How about the crabby old neighbor who is always frowning? Is it not possible his frown is masking grief for a lost wife, or a son whose turned his back on his father? There is the police officer who pulled you over for going over the speed limit, and who is being rather short with you because he just had to deal with a domestic violence call. Can you imagine the impact on the officers day, if you, after having been served the traffic ticket, thanked him for making our roads safer, and possibly saving your life by calling you on your dangerous driving? All these people can be in need of a gentle smile, and a word of encouragement. What if you sat down next to the old bag lady and asked her how shes doing? What if you offered to take her into a cafe for an early dinner? What if you baked a plate full of cookies for the grumpy old man? What if you asked your parents if you could invite the lonely young man down the hall for a weekend in your home? What if you quietly paid for the groceries of the young woman behind you in the check-out line? What if you collected all the old toys left over from your children, and gave them to a shelter for battered women? What if you gave out one hundred dollars worth of tens to homeless men on the street? What if you ordered an extra hamburger and fries, and gave the bag to a homeless man at the entrance of the fast food store, and included a twenty dollar bill as an extra gift? What if you made a pact with yourself to do seven acts of kindness each and every week, without judgement. What if you took on the role of an angel unaware? Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares (Hebrews 13:2). With love in Christ, Abbot Tryphon
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 05:04:24 +0000
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