The
Little Things Matter
By Marijean
Reis, Class of 2013
Bishopville, South
Carolina
Hatred stirs up
strife, but love covers all sins. Proverbs 10:12
When I
was in middle school, there was this one boy who rode the bus with me. He would
always run home as soon as the bus dropped him off. Not knowing what he was
running to or from, the other kids on the bus and I would laugh and make fun of
him every day. One day, he missed school.
A week afterwards, he stopped running home after the bus dropped him
off. We were curious about his behavior.
What the
other kids and I did not know was that he ran home because he wanted to make
sure his sister had not killed herself while he was gone at school each day.
As you
can imagine, this story did not end well.
I
learned that year not only to not judge anyone before knowing their story, but
to not conform to what other people are doing.
Be the
“odd” one. Do not let people be a bad influence. Do well, because God puts
people in our lives to test us, to see how we will treat them. It may not
always be as serious as this, but even the little things matter.
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