Life is like a vapor...

Life is a like a vapor... A mist. James 4  

Sometimes it is so hard to ask for help.  I speak from experience.  After shoulder surgery last year -- I was unable to drive for almost two months.  I had to get to physical therapy three times a week.
It was hard for me to ask for help. I didn't want to be an imposition on anyone.  I sent out an e-mail
to a ladies prayer group that i attend. Several ladies responded and volunteered to take me to therapy.
It was such a blessing.   And all I had to do was ask.

Now I am doing great and recovered from my surgery... driving again and trying to be more aware of
the needs around me.  I recently had opportunity to take an old friend to therapy.  It was such a blessing  and to be able to help her like those ladies helped me.  It was a special time of reconnecting with an old friend that I haven't seen in several years.

Webster says: inconvenient means an annoying occurrence that makes you go out of your way.

Do you ever feel like an inconvenience?  Do you make others feel like they are an inconvenience?
What a blessing to be treated with such honor as the Samaritan treated the man who was attacked by robbers.  He went out of his way to help this man. A Samaritan who most likely had been treated as an inconvenience his entire life.    What an honor for Jesus to use the Samaritan as an example.


30 Jesus said,  “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’