She also put back a package of jambalaya. She still had some alcohol at home, so she put that back. With being a diabetic she needed rubbing alcohol to cleanse her skin before she takes her blood and her insulin. The only solution to pay for the groceries was to take off the items she could do without. Having walked to the store, she went to pay for her groceries, but she was short about three dollars. During the week, however, she liked to walk up to her “little store,” as she called it, to buy odds and ends. Unless I had a reason to be out of town, each week I would take my mother to do her grocery shopping, visit the doctor and provide company and transportation for any other errands that she needed. If you are, however, looking for a small, random act of kindness that perhaps you could emulate, please read on. Spoiler alert, if you are looking for a sensational story of a great rescue or heroics, like the news headlines whose criteria is if it bleeds, it leads, or if it’s engaging it has to be raging, then you will be disappointed. The story came from my mother, and it was too good not to share. It’s the story of a modern day Good Samaritan (the original, in case you wanted to look it up, is in the book of Luke 10:30-37). There always seems to be depressing headlines in the news, but here’s a story about some good news.
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