DONT WE ALL

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Very early this morning 5:45AM to be precise, while I was waiting to board a bus home from Ojuelegba, I decided to take a few minutes to take in the environment. My gaze fell upon a very dirty looking man coming my way from under the bridge across the road thirty feet from me. From the looks of him, he had no home, no clean clothes, and no money. There are times when you feel generous but there are other times that you just don’t want to be bothered. This was one of those “don’t want to be bothered times.”
“I hope he doesn’t come to me to ask me for any money,” I thought.
He didn’t.
He came and sat on the curb in front of the bus stop but he didn’t look like he could have enough money to even ride the bus. After a few minutes he spoke.
“I like that your shirt,” he said.
He was ragged but he had an air of dignity around him. His scraggly grey beard keep more than his face warm.
I said, “Thanks,” and continued admiring the scene erupting before my very eyes - the always busy Ojuelegba slowly waking up from slumber!
He sat there quietly as I continued in my reverie. The expected plea for money never came. As the silence between us widened something inside said, “Ask him if he needs any help.” I was sure that he would say “yes” but I held true to the inner voice.
“Do you need any help?” I asked.
He answered in three simple but profound words that I shall never forget. We often look for wisdom in great men and women. We expect it from those of higher learning and accomplishments. I expected nothing but an outstretched grimy hand. He spoke the three words that shook me.
“Don’t we all?” he said.
I was feeling high and mighty, successful and important, above a ragged homeless man in the street, until those three words hit me like a bomb.
Don’t we all?
I needed help. Maybe not for bus fare or a place to sleep, but I needed help. I reached in my wallet and gave him not only enough for bus fare, but enough to get a good meal. Those three little words still ring true. No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have accomplished, you need help too. No matter how little you have, no matter how loaded you are with problems, even without money or a place to sleep, you can give help. Even if it’s just a compliment, you can give that.
You never know when you may see someone that appears to have it all. They are waiting on you to give them what they don’t have. A different perspective on life, a glimpse at something beautiful, a respite from daily chaos, that only you through a torn world can see.
Maybe the man was just a homeless beggar wandering the streets. Maybe he was more than that. Maybe he was sent by a power that is great and wise, to minister to a soul too comfortable in themselves.
Maybe God looked down, called an Angel, dressed him like a beggar, and then said, “Go minister to that man, he needs help.”
Don’t we all?
Meditation: For indeed He does not give aid to angels, but He does give aid to the seed of Abraham. - Hebrews 2:16
We will succeed in Jesus Name!       CULLED

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