See Also:
Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Jane Addams Story.
Life Lesson #98 – Be Valuable, Not Important.
Jenny and her father were on their way home from school one afternoon when they saw an older lady with ragged clothes and stringy hair pushing a grocery cart down the sidewalk. The lady had a lot of stuff in her cart, but it looked old and ragged, too, and she looked hungry. Just then, two boys went up to her laughing and making fun of her. Then they started pulling things out of her cart and throwing them on the ground. The more they threw, the more frantic she became, and the more they laughed.
Jenny’s father rushed over yelling at the two boys, and immediately their arrogance became fear. They weren’t nearly as tough as they pretended. Well, the boys ran off, but not very far, because Jenny’s father had called the police on his cell phone before he got out of the car.
He HELPED the lady put all the things back in her cart. But he went further to HELP the lady get to a shelter where volunteers could HELP her have a place to sleep and food to eat until she could get her life together. Jenny was there the whole time and became more and more amazed watching her father—a real HERO in action!
Jenny had learned a lot that day. She saw, first hand, the difference between people who hurt others and people who HELP others. And when they were finally on their way home again, Jenny asked her dad if they could become volunteers at the shelter, too, and you know, that’s exactly what they did.
– Jim Lord