Thought: Forget yourself for others and others will not forget you!
Biblical text: "So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." (Matthew 7:12)
Reporters and city officials gathered at a Chicago railroad station one afternoon in 1953. The person they were meeting was the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize winner. A few minutes after the train came to a stop, a giant of a man - six-feet-four with bushy hair and a large moustache - stepped from the train. Cameras flashed. City officials approached him with hands outstretched. Various ones began telling him how honoured they were to meet him.
The man politely thanked them and then, looking over their heads, he asked if he could be excused for a moment. He quickly walked through the crowd until he reached the side of an elderly black woman who was struggling with two large suitcases. He picked up the bags, and with a smile, escorted the woman to a bus. After helping her aboard, he wished her a safe journey. Returning to the greeting party he apologised, "Sorry to have kept you waiting."
The man was Dr. Albert Schweitzer, the famous missionary doctor who had spent his life helping the poor in Africa. In response to Schweitzer?s action, one member of the reception committee said with great admiration to the reporter standing next him, "That?s the first time I ever saw a sermon walking."
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