Great story, and that’s a really lovely thought about being each other’s angels. I’ve run into many in my life and they are usually life savers in some way or lift my spirits when they desperately need it. Love is so powerful. One day a young woman with a baby in a stroller was walking down the sidewalk and fell quite hard onto the cement. I was sitting in my parked car waiting for my son and saw it. She was obviously hurt because she stayed down. I jumped out of the car and helped her up, dusted her off a bit, and offered her a ride to her house. It wasn’t much, but it obviously gave her comfort to know someone was there. By that time her husband had come to meet her and she declined my offer of a ride politely. My mother is a good, generous woman but when I told her of this she said “you can’t save the world Mary.” I don’t know why she said that, but it got me thinking that I could help save a small portion of the world – MY portion. I’m always looking for ways to help, sort of like the random acts of kindness idea. It feels so good to make a difference in someone else’s life no matter how small it is.

Now THAT is a 21st Century good Samaritan.

I really like that phrase,”when we choose not to be strangers”. thanks

Mary’s mother’s comment about ‘you can’t save the world, reminds me of one Rachel Remen’s little stories about the older man walking along the beach, tossing stranded sand dollars back in the surf. I don’t recall the exact wording, but it was something like this: a young man tells the older man that he can’t save them all. And the older man says that no, he can’t, but those that he does save appreciate it.

Thanks Don. I really liked the story about the sand dollars. I’ll remember that one.

The powerful phrase here for me is “when we choose not to be strangers”. It is a choice. Walking up to the neighbor down the street who is out in their yard and saying a quick hello rather than jogging on by makes for less efficient work outs but a better functioning neighborhood.

Cheers!!