Thank You...You Know Who You Are!

I heard the scraping of snow shovels, but had no idea. I simply assumed neighbors were being more ambitous than I was being, clearing off their walks as the snow kept falling.

Meanwhile, I kept reading about the amazing first one-hundred days of Franklin Roosevelt's administration. It was a period, you know, when a special session of Congress, on behalf of a country desperately mired in a depression which, by that time, had gone on for four years, waited for the Great Improviser to send the next piece of legislation. (At least one of the bills from this period wasn't even printed, but simply rolled-up newsprint representing what the Administration and the Congress had agreed to do.)

The whole thing was so absorbing, I guess, that I didn't really think about the scraping of shovels I heard.

Then my wife came upstairs and said, "Mark, there are people out shoveling our walk and I think they're from the church!"

I ran downstairs and sure enough, that was exactly the case. I felt like a slug...and very thankful.

What an incredibly wonderful thing to do...and so typical of this family!

Their kindness is an example of the common graces God's people share with others. I surely didn't deserve the kindness. But I just as surely appreciated it!

Thank you to the following bloggers

They linked to Better Living in recent days:
Alyson Love
Rick Moore
John Schroeder
Also, updating: Simply Skimming
Thanks!

Thanks to...

Simply Skimming for linking to this post.

Blogotional for linking to this post.

Thanks to...

Dan at A Slower Pace for honoring me with the designation of thinking blogger. I truly am honored...by the award and by Dan's gracious words. Go to Dan's fine blog each day, by the way. He too, makes you think.

Joe Gandelman of The Moderate Voice and Greg Williams of Hymnprovisations (love that name!) for linking to my post on Virginia Tech.

I really am honored...and a little surprised...when others link to this site. To paraphrase an old Amy Grant song, "If anything good shows up on this blog, it's from Jesus!"