Do you like stories that get passed around on the Internet? There’s one story I read and loved several years ago. Unfortunately it’s been on the Internet for quite a few years now and has been greatly embellished. The current story is about a young man named Kyle who was considering suicide after being bullied. This is how the real story goes:

One day there was a boy walking with his books in hand. He tripped and his books came tumbling down along with him. Another boy saw this and went to help him. After helping him up they both spent the rest of the afternoon together. During the next months and years they see each other sporadically in school and are friendly to each other. One day the first young man, in a private conversation, tells his friend who helped him that he had planned on killing himself the day they met but ended up spending the day with him instead.

Helping someone pick up their books might seem like nothing, but we never know what an act of kindness means to others. In fact, we never know when God puts people, friends, or family in our path who need something we have or can get for them. We may never know whose life we changed through one act!