Gordon Lightfoot: "Rainy Day People"

These are the sort of friends folks desire and admire. You can hear the reasons for their value to others in this song. Check it out here.

Showing kindness to the son of a foreign king is a rare thing. We read of one instance of this in 2 Samuel 10:1 and 2 (Bible in Basic English). "Now after this, death came to the king of the children of Ammon, and Hanun, his son, became king in his place. And David said, 'I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father was a friend to me.' So David sent his servants, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon."

Of course the greatest act of comfort was prophesied in Isaiah 62:11 (BBE). "The Lord has sent out word to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your saviour comes; those whom he has made free are with him, and those to whom he has given salvation go before him."

Part of that fulfilled prophecy was shown to a hemophiliac sufferer by Christ in Matthew 9:22 (BBE). "But Jesus, turning and seeing her, said, 'Daughter, take heart; your faith has made you well.' And the woman was made well from that hour."

And as the sick were despised by society in Christ's time, so were disabled people. Matthew 9:49 (BBE) demonstrates Christ's compassion on less-fortunate folks. "And Jesus came to a stop and said, 'Let him come.' And crying out to the blind man, they said to him, 'Be comforted: come, he has sent for you.'"

But we don't need to be healers and miracle workers to help others. Look at what Paul wrote in Romans 15:1-4 (BBE). "We who are strong have to be a support to the feeble, and not give pleasure to ourselves. Let every one of us give pleasure to his neighbour for his good, to make him strong. For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, 'The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.' Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope."

If our hoped-for desire of Christ's return hasn't happened by Saturday, I'll post about how disabled folks must be treated