Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Kindness at the Bank

“Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not.”
~ Dan Millman

I recently went to the bank shortly after closing to get cash from the ATM machine, which is located inside the building lobby and just outside of the doors to the bank.  A woman walked up to the glass doors of the bank, which were locked, and knocked hard on them.  “I have an emergency,” she said to a bank teller who was inside. “I just need to ask you a question.”  To my great surprise, the bank teller unlocked the glass doors and talked to the woman.  I don’t know what her problem was or whether the teller was able to resolve it, but at the very least, he tried.

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Today is the feast of the Assumption.  It also is the feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, a Polish priest who volunteered to die in the place of another prisoner in Auschwitz in 1941.

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