Mower Duty
This Week's Theme: Being a Server
Monday, April 30, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me (Matthew 25:40).
Bonus Reading:Romans 13:8-10
Sitting on my backyard deck, I watched pantomime theater across our chain link fence. There were words, but I couldn't hear them. The air smelled of freshly mowed grass as the man of the house, Bill Darrah, stood beside his silent mower. His wife, Linda, was stabbing the sky with fingers, stomping the ground and making faces. Just a few years older than I, Bill's a workaholic mechanic who'd suffered a heart attack a few months earlier.
When I saw him cutting the grass that afternoon, I figured he'd been given the okay by his doctor. Otherwise, his wife would have mowed it for him, as she had struggled to do in the weeks earlier. But his wife's war dance and his droopy head made it clear that he certainly hadn't been released for mower duty.
I had only a small window of opportunity to show compassion to this neighbor. The next time I gassed up my own mower, I walked next door and told my neighbor that if it'd be okay with him I'd cut his lawn each time I cut mine, until the doctor released him. Who knows, I may have prevented another heart attackhis wife's, if not his.
Stephen M. Miller in Present Moments
Respond:
Who can you serve this week? Make an effort to help someone this week you do not normally care for.
Thought to Apply:
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet, essayist, 19th century)
Adapted from: Present Moments (Servant, 1999). 1 of 1
Jesus, help me to be more like You. Give me a heart of love for my friends, family and people who are lost and hurting.
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