Good Samaritans

This week, our growth group has started a video series labeled "The Good Samaritan". MS and I tried to go to study last night, after work, but baby had a different plan in mind. Everything was going as planned until I needed to put her to bed so we could start group. She cried and cried and would not fall asleep, so we ended up sneaking out during the middle, and I only got to sit in for about 5 minutes. But, even though I wasn't able to listen to the video, or hear the discussion, I couldn't help but feel incredibly thankful for all the "good samaritans" that we have leaned on in the last couple of weeks. A post about how lucky we are to have such wonderful, and helpful friends has been floating around in my head the last week or so, but last night I realized that we have been blessed by people who are ACTING upon the Lord's call - they are actually BEING the Good Samiritans to us. We were in need, they saw the need and jumped in to help, without complaint or wanting anything in return. I realized last night that THIS IS THE WAY IT GOD INTENDED us to live, as a community who help each other out. There are times in everyone's life where we need each other to lean on, in our lives, we have relied on people to do a load a laundry for us, lug a faulty washer back to the store to be returned, help pick up a couch at 9:00 at night on a weekday, come over to sop up the flooded kitchen from the broken washer on a Monday night, watch our daughter for 28 hours straight while moved and unpack the essentials to live, or just lended a compassionate ear so I could talk and cry about the craziness of my life. We are community of people all needing each other. We need to lead with love, compassion and willingness to help out instead of turn crossing the street and turning a blind eye to our neighbors who are in need of our help. Without these good samiritans in our lives, we wouldn't have survived these last two weeks. I can only hope that I can soon someday the Good Samiritan for someone else. My challenge to you is how are you going to BE the Good Samiritan to someone this week? How can you help?