Overcast Fall Morning, Jamestown, NC
Outreach Center, Jamestown, NC
As we turn the calendar over to November, or swipe our touch
screens, there is now a chill in the air as scarlet and yellow leaves gently glide down
in slow death spirals around us. The
changing seasons are always a good time of renewal and preparation for new beginnings. It’s a great
time to go through the clothes closet and weed out those items that you haven’t
worn this past season or probably for the past year or two. And a thrift center is the perfect place to
take them so that someone else can benefit from the bargain prices.
I burned some quality closet time this morning and filled a
large plastic bag with polos and t-shirts. Then I dropped
it off at our local church thrift store.
All of this rather mundane activity left me with a warm feeling of
giving back to help total strangers in their life struggles.
As I exited the thrift center to my car, I passed a man
very close to my age and appearance walking out to his weathered truck with a
small bag of clothing. It was a scene
from the perspective of a casual observer of two similar ships passing in the
night. One was giving and the other was
receiving. If that observer had caught
us in the middle of the parking lot, only the shopping bag might have revealed
the receiver and from all appearances, both strangers could have been
brothers.
Of course, we are brothers in the broader sense and hopefully the experience was equally satisfying to both of us.
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