Nehemiah 4:6
I love to read and my favorite settings are either bible times or early American history. I especially love stories set in the pioneer days. There seemed to be such unity among those courageous people who came west to settle our great land. We read about the barn raising's, where neighbor joined with neighbor to build, or rebuild, a house or a barn. Women got together to quilt or to can the produce of their crops. Doing these things together formed bonds such as we seldom see among neighbors today. Nehemiah hit it on the head with the words, "The people had a mind to work". Occasionally we read of this happening today. But it is only in times of crisis. How sad. Any load carried by two is divided in half. Why don't we practice that in our everyday lives? Why wait for tragedy?
My prayer for today: Father, help me to be sensitive to those around me and be a real neighbor in the old-fashioned meaning of the word.
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