ChosenRebel's Blog

I saw a wonderful video this week about a High School football player by the name of Malachi Coleman. As Steve Hartman tells the story, Malachi and his sister were abandoned by their mother but eventually adopted by a couple in Nebraska after a troubled number of years in the child welfare institutions. He arrived in the Coleman family deeply troubled and totally self-absorbed. Eventually, his exasperated adoptive mother challenged him to do something, just one thing that was for someone else. She said she gave him over a hundred ideas. Finally, Malachi said he could hold the door for someone. It transformed his life. It is short and wonderful

Here’s a link to the video.

Bonhoeffer wrote about the connection between gratitude and helping others in Letters and Papers from Prison.

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“In normal life, we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.”