Helping Others

A clergyman was consulted by a widow who was feeling sorry for herself because she'd be alone on an upcoming holiday. The pastor said, 'I am going to give you a prescription,' and proceeded to to write the name and address of a poor elderly couple.

'These people are a lot worse off than you,' he said bluntly. 'Do something for them'.
The woman went away muttering to herself, but the next day she went to the address. There, in a tiny apartment, she found the couple. They were fragile and barely able to fix meals for each other. So, she arranged to cook their holiday dinner.

When she saw the clergyman the following week, she had a new bounce in her step. ' It was certainly the best holiday I have had in years,' she told him.
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Helen Keller, the american author who was deaf and blind from infancy, once remarked:
'I find life an exciting business- and almost as exciting when it is lived for others'.