Letting Our Lights Shine Before Others, Part 1 (TMF:2219)

Thursday, November 09, 2023
Peace to Live By: Letting Our Lights Shine Before Others, Part 1 (TMF:2219) - Daniel Litton
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       We often dread the thought of helping others. Isn’t that sad? Sad but true. More often than not, we wonder if there is a way we can get out of helping someone with something. We don’t want to be bothered. We want all of our time to be ours, and not someone else’s. Yet, despite all of this, we know, deep down, that it’s our responsibility to help others. I mean, after all, we expect people to help us from time to time, do we not? We hope our friend will pick us up at the airport, take us to the auto repair place when our car is done, help us hang out a new light fixture, aid us in moving a heavy piece of furniture, whatever it is, we expect help from others. The truth is, is that helping others, letting others see we are not only about ourselves (in effect, letting our lights shine), this typically ends up benefiting us more than it does the person we are actually helping. It benefits us because we get to see that the help we provided eased the burden of our friend. We get to give a little and thus make someone else’s life a little bit easier.