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Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling

1Peter 4:9

​Do unto others as you would like them to do to you.

Luke 6:31

The One-armed One-legged Soilder

A solider was finally coming home after having fought in war. Before going home, he called his parents. "Mom, Dad, I am coming home but I have a favour to ask. I have a friend whom I want to bring home with me." "Sure, we would love to meet him," was the reply. The son continued, "there is something you should know about him. He was hurt badly while fighting here. He stepped on land mine because of which he lost one of his legs and an arm. He has nowhere else to go and I want him to come and live with us." His parents replied, "we are sorry to hear that son. We can help him find a place to live." Son replied, "No Mom, Dad, I want him to live with us." "But Son," father said, "You don't know what you are asking for. Someone with such disability would be like a burden on us. We have our own lives to live. We just can't let something like this interfere with our lives. You should just come home and forget about that guy." The soldier ended the conversation, hung the phone up and his parents heard nothing from him after that. Few days later, his parents got a call from the Police. The Police told them that their son had died after falling from a building. Police believed that it was suicide. Grief-stricken the parents flew there and went to the city morgue to identify the body. They recognized him. But were shocked to see that their son had one arm and one leg. Moral: We often find it easy to love those who appear to look physically good, but don't like people who can be an inconvenience to us. We tend to stay away from people who aren't as beautiful, smart, and healthy as we are. Everyone life is valuable, and everyone should be treated with love and respect.

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