For the past couple of weeks, I've been posting adds on craigslist to help people move with my giant sized church van. I've found it's a great way to get out and meet people that are going through transitions and it puts a little money in my pocket. Last night I got a desperate call from a guy that wanted my help. He wanted me to come over and help him move a king size mattress up the stairs of his condo. When I got there, I realized it wasn't from a truck to an upper level unit, but, from the living room down stairs to the hallway upstairs. It took about 3 minutes to get it moved. He paid me and I left.
It makes me wonder how a person can be so lonely in such a crowded place. How is it that he had to have me drive 24 miles to his condo to help him lift a mattress upstairs? He lived in the center of a gated condominium community, with hundreds of units, yet he could not get the help of one neighbor......
It appears we have our work cut out for us.....not moving people kind of work. Well, maybe moving people kind of work, but, not their stuff.....their hearts. Vince Antonucci wrote a book called "Guerrilla Lovers" which is a call to action to ambush unsuspecting people with God's love by doing random (but planned) acts of kindness, over and over again. To the point that it becomes habitual and automatic in our lives. Then, as in Guerrilla warfare, a small out numbered force can do real damage to the enemy. In other words, little 'ol you and me can make a huge difference in peoples lives, just by being there waiting for the right opportunity to love them.
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