This week we had two snow storms that left over two feet of snow on the ground. Saturday night was the first one. I came out on Sunday morning and started blowing out my drive with my snow blower.
While clearing a path, I looked at our neighbor’s house. The husband and wife were shoveling and I could see small puffs of snow from the shovels. They were making slow progress.
I left what I was doing and maneuvered my snow blower over to the neighbor’s drive. The snow blower bit into the crusty ridge left by the snowplow. Within 10 minutes the drive was cleared. I shut the snow blower down. The husband came over to me and gave me a big hug. He didn’t know how he was going to get it all done in time for getting to church.
It meant so much to him, and it was only a little effort for me. I simply needed to stop thinking about myself and focus on someone else for a change. The power of the act was overwhelming for my neighbor. I can be appreciative for that, but it didn’t cost me that much. Think of how much more could have been done, if I had been willing to sacrifice more.
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