An read article I read one day.
A country doctor answered an emergency call late one evening. It was about a child who was choking. . The night doctor was making good time on the empty country roads when suddenly he came to a point where there was no more road. The recent floods had caused sink hole right in the middle of the way. He now would have to take a long detour. The night doctor frantically stepped out of his car trying to evaluate the situation when a burly road worker came out of a big Bulldozer offering to help. The doctor explained the desperate situation when the road worker said, “You need a road? I’ll make you a road!”, upon which he proceeded to move dirt and create a road where before there was no road. The doctor rushed to the house where he found a mother in tears frantically holding in her arms a child turning blue from lack of oxygen. The doctor quickly remedied the situation and, to the great relief of all, the child started breathing normally. The doctor returned home taking a different route. And what of the worker who created a road where before there was no road? After finishing his shift late that evening, he went back home and learned how his baby boy had almost suffocated to death until a kind concerned doctor arrived and treated him. Everybody responded to the need. It is the doctor’s duty and mandate to do so, but the road worker voluntarily drafted himself in the issue. Without question, he unselfishly responded to the need. He did not have to, but he did. He did not know the child was his, but this is what happens when we unselfishly answer the need around us: as we save others, we often save ourselves. I heard it said one time, “He who saves one life, saves a whole universe!”
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