"Carry out a random act of kindness,
with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for
you."
~ Princess Diana
I recently
attended Saturday evening vigil Mass.
Toward the end of the Mass, people began arriving for a wedding. As I was leaving the church, I opened the
door for an older woman who seemed to have something stuck on her high-heeled
pump. When she stopped to look, it
turned out that the sole had come off almost entirely from her shoe. Two younger woman immediately came to her
assistance. They sat her in a chair in
the sacristy as they looked for glue to fix the shoe. One of the younger women sent her children to
a nearby store to buy glue; the other woman, a teacher at the church school,
looked for the maintenance man to open her classroom to get glue. Once they found glue, the two women glued
the sole on the older woman's shoe. They held the sole and the shoe together for
a few minutes, so that the glue would adhere them. Then they had the woman put on her shoe and take
a few steps to see how the shoe felt.
Mission accomplished, they walked the older woman back to the church --
just in time for the wedding.
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