Cycle complete!
This is Rupert, and on my first day in Germany he invited me to pull over and share a coffee with him (in the end he absolutely insisted I also eat a pastry and sandwich at his expense!) We had met on the road on his way to work and chatted away for 10 minutes, discussing various things from his family to what I was doing on the road. From this he postponed his work by a half hour to just hang out at the cafe. I knew that he would surely have to make this up in the evening, given he worked an 8 hour day but that didn't stop him from taking the time to spend time and engage with a foreigner.
To be honest to me that's worth more than the food, albeit I really appreciated the decent breakfast! Time. It appears so precious to us that sometimes we can't let anything get in the way of our daily routine. We must be here by a certain time, or I can't help you out because I've something else 'more important' to do. Understandably there are situations where these excuses are entirely valid and appropriate, but think of all those times when they're not? We're all guilty of it, I included. Am I really too busy to call in and say hello to my grandparents? Perhaps you may be their only visitor all day. Or when you finish dinner only to go down to your room and scroll through your Facebook account for the 10th time that day. Could you instead have used that time to help mum wash up. (Hope my mum doesn't read this and expect great things from me!) Anyhow they're are so many opportunities where perhaps we could be more generous with our time. For me Rupert has illustrated this so well in sacrificing his time to make me feel welcome in his country, and a comparable country to Ireland at that, in its western ways. Perhaps we can all learn from his example.
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8/22/2016 15:53:45
What a lovely blessing towards the end of your 'tour' - God is so gracious to us all the time.
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