Respect and just take time to help!!

[jmeghunts]

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[jmeghunts]

““Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. “So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be honored by men. Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full. But when you give to the poor, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving will be in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.”
**Matthew *6:1-4 *NASB

This

[Barrett]

Acts of kindness and generosity with no expectation of reward or even aknowledgement is the key to good life. So much easier than being confrontational or judgmental. Thank you for sharing this.

[DTala]

I was at a local grocery store with my 12 year old grandson. As we came out I noticed an elderly woman struggling with her groceries and trunk. I told grandson to go help her load her groceries. He did and when he returned he asked why I did that?

I told him a REAL man will help others that need help. Without being asked or paid. Next time we saw someone who needed help he didn't ask, he just went over and helped. Makes a Pop proud.

[slayr]

I try and help people out, when I notice they need help. Usually me, I am dang near running into a store, through the store and back out. I hate going to most places to buy whatever. Sometimes, I guess, when a situation is very obvious, I notice and offer help.

Sometime back, I was at the Schertz HEB, that parking lot, goes up hill, away from the store. Some older guy, with a leg amputated, was trying to push his cart up hill to his truck and had to stop, and catch his breath. I think he was using a walker, if I remember correctly, but with the walker, him being week, then having to go up hill. He was not doing well, so I offered to push his cart, he snapped at me and told me he could get it. I replied, yea, but I don't have a cart to push, and I am going to same direction, let me have the cart. I could tell he was going to refuse my offer, so at the same time I reached for the cart and started pushing it. Then asked where he was parked. He pointed out his truck, I got his car there, unloaded it, loaded his walking in his truck and put his cart away. Only took three minutes out of my day, no big deal.

Then sometime back, when I was building the greenhouse. I drove my truck up to the front of Home Depot, after paying for some concrete. Got there, there was some old guy standing there behind his truck, waiting for a Home Depot employee to load concrete in his truck. I could not get my truck close to the concrete, the old guy, was not going to load many bags by himself, not anytime quickly. So I got out of my truck, asked him how many bags, he needed loaded and loaded them. Sure hope I did not help him steal 30 bags of concrete. Got him loaded, he left, then I loaded up my truck. When I was just about done, a Home Depot employee showed up, asking if I needed help. I think he got to load one bag, I think I got 20 bags that day. I was pretty much done at that point. I think I would have had to take a break, if I had another 10 or more bags to load.

More than likely, I walk past people all the time, when I go to stores, that need help and never notice. Because I am in a hurry to get in and get back out.

I will admit, I do not help people who have car trouble. If their car is broke down and they are not elderly, their problem ain't my problem. I have tried to help people who's cars are broke down multiple times, multiple of those times, thing went bad in one way or another. So I don't see people when they have car trouble, that is one kind of situation, I don't get involved in.

We went to Oregon some years back. We went to an aquarium on the coast. While we were there, some tall skinny white liberal dip, saw some Asians walking around smoking in the aquarium, it was a part of the aquarium that was outside. The white guy was with his wife and young daughter. The bone head, started yelling at the Asians, that they were not supposed to smoke, and that they were harming his family. I was thinking, you should just mind your own business, but I did not say anything to him. Well then the white guy, went and knocked the cigarette out of one of the Asian's mouth. That got them fired up, turns out they were some Asian gang. They took off chasing him, his wife and daughter. The wife was terrified, trying to run while carrying their daughter. The dip liberal husband, did not bother to stop and help his wife or daughter. I was really POed at him. I wanted to kick his rear myself. The Asians really did not care who they got, they just went after all of them.

The whole mess wound up out in the parking lot, the Asians got in their car and started chasing them. The whole time I followed them, to make sure nothing bad happened. I was not able to keep up with the tall white guy. Once the Asians got in their car and started chasing the couple, who were still on foot. I got in our rental car and cut off the Asians and blocked them from chasing the couple. Then told them to leave the fruit cakes alone. I really was not worried about the husband, more worried about the wife and daughter. The Asians tried to hang around and look for the liberal idiot, I also hung around to make sure nothing dumb happened. The Asians finally left, so we did also.

That was one of those situations, where it was hard to decide to get involved at first, because the guy asked for it. But when the Asians started chasing the wife, who was carrying the daughter, that's when I said, that was enough. My wife was worried, I was going to get our rental car smashed up. I told her not to worry about it. She also was very worried about the wife and daughter and wanted to pick them up, to get them out of there. But the guy's wife followed the husband, who was only out to save his own rear, so we left them, and went back to our plans for the day. He was a lousy excuse of a husband and father.

I will do stuff like that, but don't ask me to change your leaking water pump in HEB parking lot, that ain't going to happen. Other things I won't do, is give someone money. I did that once years ago, won't do it again. When I was going to school at Del Mar in Corpus, one afternoon, my 91 day old driveshaft, snapped in half, as I was talking off, across the intersection. I had to creep across the intersection, with the driveshaft flopping banging on the floor of the truck. I got into a parking lot of a gas station on the other side of the intersection. Then started using what change I had in the console of my Bronco to call people I knew of, in Corpus, to bring me some tools, so I could remove the rear of the driveshaft from the rear end. This was back in the 80s, so I was using a pay phone. I finally got someone to answer and say they would bring some tools to me, so I could remove the broken driveshaft. While I was waiting there broke down. Some black guy came by and asked for money to buy some food. So I gave him the rest of the change in my console, which was multiple dollars in change. I had no idea, I did not count it. So he took off, then asked some people in the gas station across the street for money, then disappeared down the street. Half hour later, I am still sitting there waiting on tools to show up, and I see the same black guy coming down the road, with a box of chicken and a quart of beer, and happy as could be. I was not very happy at that point, I had been broke down for over an hour, this guy was buying chicken and beer, with money I gave him. Had I not been broken down and got to sit there for an hour and a half and see how the whole deal played out. I would never have known what he did with the money I gave him. So I would not have been mad about the whole deal. But, having handed him a handful of change, then see him come back with a box of fried chicken and a quart, when I was in a bad mood, because my driveshaft snapped in half, after 91 days, when it had a 90 day warrantee. I was not in a good mood.

This just took up my whole poop!

[Chief Big Toe]

I witness it all the time at Home Depot....Folks helping folks. I help folks that look like they need it and I have folks help me when I'm loading lumber for the honeydoos. Heck I even had an elderly man help me with several sheets of plywood loading the other day when I told him he didn't have to do it. He insisted because folks have helped him. No horn tootin' required...

THIS! this is so very true, imagine if we all just did it to do it...

[Marco]

Imagine if we did this daily and never told a soul.

This^^^^^^

[quarterback]

Good on you Kuma. This is the way my dad taught us, and the way I (hopefully) taught my sons to be. Lord knows I've been in a bind or two in my life and someone stopped to help.

It's good to see you posting again my friend.

[D4H]

When my wife and I eat out if we notice a couple or a family praying before their meal, I quietly go to the cashier during their meal and pay their bill before they leave. They never know who paid for the meal but the cashier tells them why it was paid for. I've watched the reaction at the cashier line out the corner of my eye and the recipients can't believe it, and customers in line can't believe it. The reactions are always positive and it makes me feel good in doing my part. A small price to pay for spreading good will.

[Burnadell]

When my wife and I eat out if we notice a couple or a family praying before their meal, I quietly go to the cashier during their meal and pay their bill before they leave. They never know who paid for the meal but the cashier tells them why it was paid for. I've watched the reaction at the cashier line out the corner of my eye and the recipients can't believe it, and customers in line can't believe it. The reactions are always positive and it makes me feel good in doing my part. A small price to pay for spreading good will.

Thank you for doing what you do.

Whenever I am eating at a local restaurant in our small town, I ALWAYS pick up the tab whenever a few of the local police are eating there. I also let them know that their ticket is covered. It seems that, whenever they see my truck at a restaurant, them "just happen" to go in to eat there. I haven't had a traffic ticket in many years. I feel good about that!

This is the first time I have told anybody about my good deed.

[Benno]

I had the opportunity today to help a young lady. I was coming out of a subdivision and she was on the main road with her hazards flashing, I noticed there was a piece of plastic trim hanging from under her front bumper dragging the street making a god awful noise. She looked confused and worried, as she pulled off the main road into the subdivision she slowly pulled over and stopped. I was about to U turn and offer a hand when I noticed her “Vote for BETO” sticker. I proceeded to my next job.

[Burnadell]

I had the opportunity today to help a young lady. I was coming out of a subdivision and she was on the main road with her hazards flashing, I noticed there was a piece of plastic trim hanging from under her front bumper dragging the street making a god awful noise. She looked confused and worried, as she pulled off the main road into the subdivision she slowly pulled over and stopped. I was about to U turn and offer a hand when I noticed her “Vote for BETO” sticker. I proceeded to my next job.

Good move!

[Rubberdown]

Imagine if we did this daily and never told a soul.

Lots of people do. The world isn’t as bad as some would have you believe.

[Laketex]

I don't go to walmart much anymore, but I do a fair amount of helping people load up at Lowes and Home Depot. Watching an older man struggle with full sheets of plywood while not letting his cart race off down the parking lot or whatever. I know when it's me, it's a handful to do by myself.

[Matt_C]

Wow. Waiting on chapter 5!

me too.