Who is my neighbor?
About two years ago Mayor Troy Oliver and I went to Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Russellville. Troy introduced me to Father Jim Hedderman as a Gideon missionary.
Wednesday, Jan. 9, I went to Mary A. Bowling’s funeral at the Catholic Church.
Shortly after I entered the church Father Jim came along and said he remembered me as the missionary who came with Troy.
Father Jim also said as a missionary that I was welcome to come forward and speak anytime. I did not expect that.
One of my favorite Bible stories is found in Luke chapter 10.
A certain lawyer stood up and asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Instead of Jesus giving him an answer, He spoke a parable and let him decide for himself.
Is your neighbor the priest and Levite who passed by one of their own, a Jew who had been beaten by thieves and left half dead or a certain Samaritan who risked his own life to save the man from dying.
Thank you father Jim for being a good neighbor to me.
How true it is that “kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
Even a 90-year-old missionary.
Grady P. Fuller Russellville
P.S.
People at large have been good to me. I was a history teacher for 33 and a half years, a member of the Lion’s, Civitan and Rotary Clubs.
I received the Hall of Fame award twice from the Chamber of Commerce. But nothing touches me more than the letters that I have received from people throughout the world saying “You won me to Christ.”
Be kind to one another.
