When you look back to years past, there are numerous events that you think of where you may have had an impact on someones life. I think often of how things might have been had i not reacted and what would have happened to the individual.
I recall a situation back in the early 90's while with the medical mission in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. I was taking a break from bible studies and walking around the area visiting with the people who were there for medical attention. The clinic was set up in the facilities of the Methodist church in Ocho Rios. I met a mother and her young daughter standing out in the heat. The young girl who appeared to be about 5 or 6 years old was laying on the ground with her head on an old automobile tire. Her mother said she was running a high fever and was very sick. She had been told that there were too many people ahead of her to see the doctors and she would have to come back thr next day. I felt the little girls forehead and she was running a high temperature. I told the mother to wait until i got back. They had walked about 5 miles to get to the clinic. I went in the clinic and talked to one of the doctors and explained the situation. He told me to bring her in the back door and not go through registration. Her fever was 105 degrees and was suffering from a severe ear and throat infection. They doctored her and prescribed the medicines she needed and they left to go home. In situations like this the people waiting to get in the clinic tend to get hostile if someone gets ahead of them. On the last day of the clinic, during one of my studies, i looked up and saw the young girls mother who was waiting to see me. She had walked the 5 miles to bring me a gift, a hand carved bird. She said her daughter was getting better and was not running a temperature now. I explained to her the gift was not necessary and i hated she had walked that distance to bring it. She was so thankful that i had stopped that day to find out about her daughter's illness, she wanted me to have something to remember them. I still have that bird and everytime i see it i don't think of it as much as i see this young girl so sick and in need of medical attention and the way it was provided.