Many, many (30=40?) years ago, while driving to work, I listened to a commentator,(conservative, libertarian?) sound off about government in our lives..He went on and on about people helping people and acting responsibly in our lives, maintaining that if we all took care of our own to the best of our ability, we wouldn’t need so much government intervention in our lives. That program made so much sense to me that I eventually gave up my Democrat affiliation and turned conservative.
Many years later, when my mother required 24 hour care, my two sisters and I provided that care with my retired sister caring for her days and my other sister and I doing night duty.
My husband always was more giving of his time than I. For several years, he carried water all summer for an elderly neighbor when his well went dry. He had an elderly widow neighbor that he mowed her large lawn all summer and plowed her driveway and shovelled her walks in the winter. As he was in the heating business, he was always fixing leaks and thawing frozen pipes.
Now, all this is coming back to reward us. If a neighbor sees us lugging, stacking wood, in no time, there are several helping hands arriving. Likewise, we have a neighbor showing up every Saturday morning to do any *heavy* work we have.
What a joy for me and my 80 year old cancer survivor hubby! What a wonderful world this would be if everybody lived by these precepts.
Now, all this is coming back to reward us. If a neighbor sees us lugging, stacking wood, in no time, there are several helping hands arriving. Likewise, we have a neighbor showing up every Saturday morning to do any *heavy* work we have.
What a joy for me and my 80 year old cancer survivor hubby! What a wonderful world this would be if everybody lived by these precepts.<<<
It is a reflection of your goodness.
I am so glad you have good people around you.
Here, you can live 30 years and not speak to your neighbor or even know their name.
God Bless Ya'll!!!
You know that you are reaping the benefits of all that helping that ya'll did over your lives. It never hurts us to do it, and we don't know in the end all the good that comes of it. We only see a small part of that good, I believe.
My mom and I split time caring for my grandmother before she died also. I would not trade that time with Grama for anything. I spent more time with my grandparents growing up so we were close. Mom was the only child so it would have all been on her shoulders if I hadn't been able to help. I know mom would have tried to do the care herself but I doubt she could have done it. I still have treasured memories even of the last weeks when it was all hospital time. Grama still had her mind and her sense of humor. It would have been a real loss to have missed that!