At end of service, we went to retrieve Little Lady. As we led her out of toddler area, SHE took over and started pulling my wife by hand.

She lead my wife down hallway with great determination, dragging her through throng of almost 1000 people milling about in hallway, all way to far side of church where we had entered before to reach our pew. This was no small feat, and it took ten minutes to get through crowd, but she was persistent.

When we had fought our way two-thirds around church, she pulled my wife into church from hallway through very door we had entered earlier – after we had left her off at nursery.

I stood in amazement as I watched her go several pews down and turn right into very pew where we had been seated. She had never seen us go there. She had never been inside church before. How did she know?

OK, so this was not parting of Red Sea and nobody's life was saved. But could it be anything other than work of angels?

We live in troubled times. We cannot ignore sorrow around us. We must be like Good Samaritan, if we would follow Christ.

We cannot turn our eyes inward to see what we would like to have—we must rather open our eyes outward, to see what they MUST have to live.

We must indeed have big eyes—big to see, and big with compassionate tears. We must indeed have big I's—I can do this little bit to help; I can do that little bit to help, and I will do what I can. Thus will our I's serve us.

I pray that our returning Lord will not find us "seeing, but perceiving not" need around us. I pray that our returning Lord will not find us sulking in a fit of gloom because our pride is hurt. I pray that as we turn to others to share His love and bounty, we will find such peace that our eyes will see His face in all we help.

"Even so, come, Lord Jesus" — but until You do, we shall do what You would have us do.

Let us do all we can, as we can, and pray that others will join us as we do.

[Note: The above article was written close to a decade ago, but unfortunately hasn't lost any of its immediacy in intervening years. As a society we're *still* putting things before people's needs far too often in our daily lives... aren't we? - DEH]