Reciprocal Kindness

I recently received the following email from a reader of this blog:

“Maybe your ears were ringing last night, but my husband and I were at a Martyn Joseph concert in Edmonton and Martyn is a World Vision sponsor.  After the concert we went to talk to the WV people and decided to take on a little boy, Arafat Ali, from Bangladesh.  I was so taken by the pictures and your comments how everyone you met shared whatever they had and invited you in for tea…you never know the impact you are going to have on the world.

Anyway, you have helped to change a young boy’s life…his “occupation” at his tender age of six, is ‘cleaner’…let’s hope that at the very least he will learn how to read.”

Wow. What a wonderful thing to do, and if my travels and writings played even a small part I am truly humbled. But really, the kindness and genuine hospitality that I encountered in Bangladesh were quite extraordinary, and it is heartwarming to see that selflessly reciprocated from halfway around the world.

Good luck, little Arafat!