Written by Lyn Lloyd-Smith, from the Village Church.
We humans, we are so hasty to see the great wrongs of the world and so slow to acknowledge the wars that didn’t happen, the disasters that were averted. In the minutiae of everyday we find cause to complain and forget to praise the evidence of God’s goodness and love around us. Today, I choose to reflect on some of those who have touched my life in beautiful ways. I think of the choir of the French Reformed Church who took me under their wing when I was the only person living in a school building in a provincial town in Southern France. They taught me how to appreciate life in a different land and culture. I remember the neighbor in Germany who washed the steps of my apartment when I was heavily pregnant. And yes, another neighbor, in Switzerland this time, who came to the children’s gym class and looked after my baby, week after week, while I helped my toddler wear off her boundless energy on the balance beams. Then also, the neighbor in England, who knocked at my door for an entirely different reason but stayed with me for three hours while I waited to hear that my father had come through heart bypass surgery. May we today and always, in God’s grace and love, be the neighbor we want to have.
He has shown you, O Mortal, what is good. [Micah 6:8]
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