Friday, August 22, 2014

Kindness to a Stranger

"The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or money."
― Sarah Fielding

We have two friends, a married couple, who are truly amazing people.  Although they live elsewhere, they have a home in our community and visit frequently.  Today, my husband received a call from them asking for assistance with translation.  At a bookstore, they saw a man in a wheelchair with what looked like terrible gangrene on his legs.  The man spoke Spanish, but no English, so they could not understand him.  Using my husband as a translator, they learned that the man was in severe pain, homeless and with no family.  They had the man transported to a hospital, so that he could receive the necessary medical care.  And they are now trying to find the man a place to stay when he is discharged.

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