There are many passages in the Bible that inspire. This would be true not only from the Bible but for any Holy Writ of other Faiths as well.
This is one of the most moving and character formative passages that has shaped much of my personal life. It comes from Matthew 25:35.
For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
It was at the age of ten that I learned something invaluable from my grand Aunt Daisy. We would frequently have laborers who cleared the grounds of invading shrubs at the rear of the row of houses where grand Aunt Daisy lived. At the end of their day’s work, grand Aunt Daisy would take a few bottles of refrigerated drinking water and hand it to the laborers from the window. It was not requested by any of the laborers but that’s what she did.
Alas, values have changed dramatically over the decades. For example:
While there are increasing numbers who pooh-pooh that beggars and the undernourished infants on the streets are tools of syndicates; they disdainfully turn their heads away with indifference, may I ask this, which is more dehumanizing? – to stop to buy a drink and a meal for the less unfortunates or to abandon them in their desperation?
Ah! and at once, those moving words reverberate in my mind – for I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in..
Note: This was originally written by Windy at the defunct Windmill of My Mind which was published on March 1, 2011.
