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I'll Take A Ride Like That

One day last summer I went running in the morning. It's hard to run anywhere near here without encountering hills. Big hills. I was coming back home turning onto my road, not looking forward to the long incline ahead of me. I noticed not far ahead of me a man on bike and identified with his difficulty in overcoming this uphill battle.

Just then a small pickup truck turned onto the road behind us, passed me and pulled up alongside the man biking. The truck slowed down alongside the bike, just long enough for the biker to grab the side of the open pickup bed and VVVVRRROOOOOOMMM - he got towed up the hill in matter of moments! (The driver must have been a co-worker from the business at the top of the hill, and this must have been a normal practice).

As I was thinking about this and breathing hard as I labored up the hill - a connection came to mind. Encouragement! What an encouragement that pickup truck driver was to the biker. How a little pause in his travel, changed the struggle of his co-worker to a breezy ride.

How can you and I encourage someone like that? Do we realize how much difference our encouragement makes?

"And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds."
Hebrews 10:24

Vrythramax

well, truly good deeds, and what that man in the pickup truck did for the other man was a good deed....however just a bit dangerous, have to come from the heart without any thought of any type of personal gain.

Example (this person will remain nameless....they know who they are), needed help in registering thier website with the search engines....so I spent 4 hours (I have submission software) to register thier site with over 300,000 search and link engines, then made up a complete report for them detailing where thier was site was going to be listed, and zipped it up for them for offline viewing....all I got was a mere "thanks alot" and they have never spoken to me again.

I did not to this for recognition, FRIH$ (as many around here would have)...I wanted to honestly help out. I will admit that I knd of wouldv'e liked to have been told if the registrations worked, did they need to be redone....or at least a "Hi, how ya doing"....but no.

This will never stop me from doing something of this nature again, I will simply be a bit more picky who I do it for, ingratful people and users abound...so be aware. But I must admit that there are times when I think "no good deed goes unpunished"

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