A Study on Love: Part LI

A Good Samaritan who sustained broken bones after pushing three people out of the way of a oncoming pickup has been cited for jaywalking, the Rocky Mountain News reports.

Bus driver Jim Moffett, 58, and one of his passengers decided to help two elderly women who had gotten off the bus on a Denver street in a light snowstorm, the newspaper says.

Moffett's stepson, Ken McDonald, tells the paper that the four had almost made it across the street when the impatient driver of a pickup passed in a left-hand turn lane and hit them.

"He plowed right into my stepdad," McDonald says. "But not before (my stepdad) pushed the old ladies and the other guy out of the way."

Moffett was hospitalized with bleeding in the brain, broken bones in his face, a dislocated shoulder, a broken wrist and possible ruptured spleen and liver, the News writes.

He also got a ticket for jaywalking.

McDonald says the citation should be dropped, but the newspaper quotes Ryan Sullivan, of the State Patrol, as saying that while Moffett's "intentions were good," jaywalking caused the accident.

The driver of the pickup was ticketed for careless driving causing injury.
That guy, in an effort to help someone else, may just cost him his life. And the fine for jaywalking, by the way, is $22 dollars. Yes, he did jaywalk. I'm not sure he deserves a fine for his effort to help others, but then again the law is the law. And if it were me, I would have jaywalked, too.

I think maybe there should be a donation line or a way to donate money, to help this guy with his medical bills and to also pay for the silly little fine. He's just a bus driver so the chances of him having the money to cover his bills is probably limited at best.

I talked to Mr. Moffett, and his wishes were not just to have something for him, but he was more concerned about the older ladies and the other gentleman. He's at St. Anthony Central Hospital in Denver, which is where I called and talked to him. I am hoping that I will be able to have a way to send money through PayPal so they can be able to help pay on some of their hospital bills.

I just wanted to share a couple of funnies. The top one deals with telling a lie and the one below is about lust. Obviously, the guy talking doesn't get it.

Matthew 25:31-46
"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.

"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?'

"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'

"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'

"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

-Now the reason I share this story instead of the "good samaritan" story is so that I can look at the sheep and the goats. I will have to say, I do not know Jim Moffett. I have talked to him and I have read about him, but I haven't seen him face to face or given the guy a hug or anything like that.

What I like about Jim is his actions. In James, it is written that faith without deeds is dead. And to have deeds that go with your faith, will just let your deeds speak for themselves. I do not know what church Jim goes to, whether it be a Catholic church or a Church of Christ or a Bible church or whatever, but what I do know is that he has a heart for others, a heart for complete strangers. And God will bless him. Or at least I pray that he does. The sheep in the above story helped others because they had love. The goats, well they didn't. They were waiting to be asked to help instead of helping out where there were needs.

Jim is a sheep. He helped out where he saw a need. And to that, I say an AMEN. Helping someone is an expression of love. Even helping a complete stranger. Not helping, well that makes you a goat and it is the same as hurting someone, essentially. Johnny Out.

This is 26 of 27... the typing feature on my photoshop decided to not work... trying to fix it. Also, yesterday's post didn't come through, in fact it got deleted. So, uh... that was weird.