Be a little miracle worker

Almost every company offers their customer the opportunity to give feedback through ‘unedited customer reviews.’  At my last company, ‘slow service’, ‘waiting’, ‘not enough help’ (again, ‘waiting’) was the #1 complaint, hands down.  Most people do not like to wait.  So we were constantly coming up with different ways to speed up our processes, and some people were STILL not happy!  Other businesses have recognized this trait in their customers as well and as a result we can now buy food, medicine, and even do our banking from our cars.  Even then we get impatient if the lines don’t move fast enough for us. Nowadays, even in the midst of a worldwide quarantine, you can see instances of people who get mad that they have to (necessarily) wait for a vaccine to be developed.

If this waiting seems hard, picture the poor man who had been sick for thirty-eight years and had no one to help him get into the pool of Bethesda for healing. Christ recognized his situation and healed him, not by the water, but by His words. (John 5:1-16)

How many people are there around us every day who are waiting for someone to reach out to them for healing?  We don’t expect that we can ask a crippled person to get up and walk, but we can heal their distress a little bit through showing interest by listening to another, through a smile, a sign of recognition, or any act of kindness.  Not all miracles are grand or 'showy'.

Indifference to those around us and their problems can be as damaging as a blatant, mean act. Throughout His public life Christ demonstrated that He cared about those around Him.

At the end of each day, wouldn’t it be nice to look back and say "Yes, I really demonstrated that I cared for those I encountered today".  It would be better if we could add, “And I did it to let the light of Christ shine through me for the glory of God the Father”.