I heard a story being told in church last Sun.The speaker related the story of a young man called John. John was walking on the road one day and he saw across the road a neighbourhood boy named Ben carrying a lot of stuffs; books, rackets, T-shirts, etc and the things were falling all over because Ben couldn’t carry all of them. John went over and tried to be a good samaritan. Ben was a loner and no one has even offered to help him. John helped Ben to carry his stuff home and while walking, John promised to take Ben out for basket ball the next day. Since that day, their friendship grew and they were friends for three years until Ben’s family moved.

Twenty years later, Ben became a pastor and went back to the small town to look for John. There sitting alone , John looked old and depressed. Ben went over and asked whether John could remember him. John said yes and he remembered their time together. When Ben asked why he looked depressed, John said that he had just contemplated on his life and he realised that he didn’t do anything meaningful that had impacted anybody. Ben told John that he was wrong. John impacted Ben’s life by the little action of helping Ben to pick up the stuffs and showed concerned. It saved Ben’s life because on that day Ben had cleared all his stuffs from the school locker and was planning to kill himself! Never underestimate the impact of small actions because in many ways, we change the world around us by small actions rather than great works.