Every Little Bit

I was looking this morning at quotes about assisting.  I guess it is a bit of a theme of mine that I see assisting others as something important for me.
I guess it was a couple of Mother Teresa quotes that stood out to me big time. “if you can’t feed 100 people then feed just one.” “We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean.  But the ocean would be less because of that one missing drop.”
There is no doubt in my mind that the needs of humanity are many.  I just need to go out of my house to the shop to see them.  One time at the shop I came across a lady that could hardly stand.  She was holding a shopping trolley to maintain her balance.  I offered to help but she had her own coping mechanisms.  The same thing happened at our market.  A lady was having trouble maintaining her balance and I and another helped her to a car that had come to get her.
I know there are even unseen needs.  I will never forget my doctor saying “you have no idea what those you see in the shopping centre are going through.”  In my mind people everywhere may be going through physical or mental difficulties.  Often the aim may be to disguise it while there is a desperate longing to share it and even better to solve it.
As George Eliot said, “what do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.”  I very much hold to that.  I feel I need to love God first and that helps me to love others.  As Albert Schweitzer said, “I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.”
I may not be able to do a lot, but I can do something.