“He that watereth, shall be watered also himself” Proverbs 11:25
"I read this touching true story of a boy selling from door to door to pay for his school. One day he found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.
He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house.
However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal, he asked for a drink of water. She thought he looked hungry and brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it so slowly and then asked, how much do I owe you?”
You don’t owe me anything,” she replied. “mother has taught us never to accept pay for kindness.”
He said … “then I thank you from my heart.”
As he left the house, he felt physically stronger, and his faith in God and man was strong. He had been ready to give up and quit.
Many years later, that same young woman became critically ill.
The local doctors were baffled. They finally sent her to the big city, where they called in specialists to study her rare disease.
A doctor named Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. A strange light filled his eyes when he heard the name of the town she came from.
Immediately he rose and went down the hospital hall to her room. Dressed in his doctor’s gown, he went in to see her. He recognized her at once.
He returned to the consultation room determined to do his best to save her life. From that day, he gave special attention to her case.
After a long struggle, the battle was won, and Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval.
He looked at it, wrote something on edge, and sent the bill to her room.
She feared to open it, for she was sure it would take the rest of her life to pay for it all.
Finally, she looked, and something caught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words … “paid in full with one glass of milk.”
(signed) Dr Howard Kelly.
Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: “thank you, god, that your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands.”
- shared by Shubha Apte on medium.com
This, friends, is a true story. Dr. Howard Kelly (1858–1943) was a distinguished physician who was one of the four founding doctors of Johns Hopkins, the first medical research university in the USA.
Here we are taught a great lesson: To get we must give; to accumulate we must scatter; to make us happy, we must make others happy. So, "Spread the Ripple. Be kind to someone today".
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