You know, there's an old saying that most of us has heard before "What's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander", and the meaning amounts to "what's fair for one should be fair for the other". If you look at the picture, most of the kids on the field trip are enjoying their lunch and the ducks and geese hoping to get a morsel or two of food. Yet there is one child (on the far right of the photo) who does not appear to be enjoying the moment and seemingly traumatized by the goose getting too close...
This picture is another from our day at the Nature Center last Friday. I like it because it captures something that many of forget as we go through the busyness of life: What's good for one (or many) is not good for the other (or all). Sometimes, life is that way too -- we may find ourselves enjoying the moments as we go through life and not realize that the person next to us may be enduring a personal hell all by themselves. Indeed, this sobering reality brings to mind a verse from the Bible that speaks to these types of situations:
"What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray"(Mat 18:12-13)
The Lord is good because he sees our hurt and will leave everyone else around us to themselves so that He can reach out to us so we're not hurting all alone...
That's what Jesus would do and those who follow him should be no different. Don't be oblivious to the needs and hurts of others. As you go through life, look around and see who might be in need of a hug, a kind word or simply a smile -- any of which can signify a helping hand in difficult times.
Food for thought.
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