Watching the news these days can be draining. It’s hard to keep faith in humanity when all you see is constant hardship, crime, and violence towards one another. It’s important to remember that there is still plenty of good out there in the world.
A woman named Lisa Lemming Jackson from Georgia recently shared a story on social media that will completely restore your faith in humanity. She is the perfect example of a Good Samaritan and you’re going to completely agree when you hear her story.
If there’s anything that we need more of in the world, it’s compassion, patience, and love — Lisa embodies all of those wonderful traits. It all started when she was shopping at Kroger grocery story and noticed an elderly man with a helpless look in his eyes.
The look in his eyes just screamed to her that he needed help — she couldn’t live with herself if she didn’t stop.
As Lisa neared the elderly man, she realized that he definitely was in need of assistance of some sort. The initial gut instinct that she had of the man was right. She posted her story on Facebook but we have some of her story here:
“Just spent 2 hrs with an elderly man at Kroger. It started with me just smiling at him, making eye contact …
As I walked past him he looked like he needed something. I went back and asked him if I could help him. Tears welled up in his eyes and he said:
I have colon cancer and I have had a really bad accident, if I get up out of this cart everyone will know … What should I do?”
The look of his dignity lost left me with a lump in my throat.
From that moment on, Kroger staff quickly fetched us wipes, undergarments and discreetly took him to their employer bathroom Area where he was given clothes.”
“He cried and apologized.
He said he had to hurry his wife was at home alone. When we walked to the register we found his groceries all bagged and somehow paid for. He cried harder.”
“He said he fought in Vietnam and Korean War and loved his country, but up until today, he said he thought his country forgot about him.
We both cried and I shared with him my own struggles and fears…he gave me words of wisdom and encouraged me that maybe, after all, humanity still does care about one another.
Today proved it.
Thank you, Elmer, thank you Kroger and thank you God for the lesson and reminder I received today.”
Lisa’s story reminds us all that we are not the color of our skin, the religion we believe in, or who we choose to have a relationship with. We are human beings. We need to support each other. We need to love each other. We need to be kind to one another.
Read Lisa Lemming Jackson’s entire post here:
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Source: Newsner
