I guess this could be a part 2 from the previous article, “Curse not the deaf!”
All week we have been following the devastations of Hurricane Harvey. It is all the more strange for us because it will be hitting near some of the areas of the Southeast where my wife and I were last month. Thursday night the news related of someone known as Jim McIngvale, or, Mattress Mack who opened the doors of his 160.000 square foot Gallery Furniture showroom as a shelter for the Houston flood victims. “These are my people; black, white, brown, white it doesn’t matter; these are my people and I’ve got to help my people!” he says.The call of the people having lost everything made him do this, he declared. It was not the first time for Jim. Hurricane Katrina was also a time when the call to help overwhelmed him. “That’s who I am!” he says, “That’s what me and my wife try to teach our children: service above self!” This is what he teaches his children, but what I found the most amazing is that when the journalist interviewing him commented, “I get the feeling that you don’t say ‘no’ very often!”, Jim answered, “My father never could say, “no! I don’t either!”’” Apart from pointing out the beautiful fathers-to-sons heritage of compassion brought out in the story, it came to me that there is One in Heaven that many of us call “Father”, and He doesn’t say “No” to anyone. Should we? http://www.npr.org/2017/08/29/546953258/houston-s-matress-mack-opens-his-doors-to-house-flood-victims https://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mattress-mack-opens-his-showroom-to-harvey-victims/
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