Today reflect on three different but good people St. Teresa of Calcutta, Arnold Palmer and the Good Samaritan.   

 

St. Teresa of Calcutta said, “Not all of us can do Great things, but we can do small things with Great love.”

Arnold Palmer said,  “What other people find in poetry, I find in the flight of a good drive.  He was a man of the people, willing to sign every autograph, shake every hand, and tried to look every person in his gallery in the eye. He lived by the Golden Rule, ‘Do unto others what you would want them to do to you.’”

In the Gospel account of the Good Samaritan Jesus reminds us that there will be many ditches on our pilgrimage here on earth.  Keep an eye along the roads you travel for the ditches: along country roads, mountain trails, city streets and sidewalks.  In office buildings, schools, even churches have them.

Ditches where people are left when they're of no use; discarded when any value they had has been stripped from them.  Ditches are where people fall when they have nothing left to give.

You may have the opportunity today to pull someone out of the ditch they've fallen into or left to die in.  Your kindness, your respect, your willingness to help or listen can be the mercy of God for someone who is broken, battered, left for dead.

We can “Dare to Be Great”: if we do all things with love of God as Mother Teresa did; if we “Do unto others what we would want them to do unto us.”,; as Arnold Palmer did and if we help those we find in the ditches of life as the Good Samaritan did!  (Ditches from Connections 10-03-16)

St. Francis de Sales said, “Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us.”  (Sermon in a Sentence, p.49)

Take a few minutes today and reflect on how you can “Dare to Be Great!”

May God Be Praised!