Today is Tuesday, May 20th, 2014; Karen's Korner #2817

People who travel our out-of-the way rural road near where we live, know that I spend some time picking up junk in the ditches when I walk. It's a hobby of mine especially in the spring when the ditch grass is short and garbage is a particular big eyesore. I glean them at least a mile or two each direction from our farm home.

Last weekend as I drove toward Clarion, there it was:  ten to dozen redeemable cans newly dumped along the edge of the roadway about 1/2 mile away from us. I didn't have time to get them then, but I determined in the next day or two, I'd walk that direction with a garbage bag and pick them up.

I did! On Sunday afternoon.

But as I approached the area, to my surprise they were already gone!

Could have been anyone who gathered them. But my mind wandered to the people who live one-half mile south of us. The family includes two upper elementary students and two younger elementary kids. On Saturday, mom was driving their pick up passed our house and the older boy and girl, bailed out of the vehicle to walk home from where we live, to talk and walk our dog, Rocky, back to their place. Mom has commented in the past how she gets a kick out of watching me glean the neighborhood of refuse.

If not them, someone did!

Without thinking about it, I tend to be a 'role model' for neighborhood 'ditch junk removal'.

We are all role models for others, whether we want to be or not; whether we do 'good' things' or 'bad'.

Let's ask God to help us as we live our everyday lives, to be the kind of people He would have us to be. When we know others and are watching. And times we have no idea anyone is paying attention.

"Don't hide your light! Let it shine for all; let your good deeds glow for all to see,

so that they will praise your heavenly Father."

~ Matthew 5:14 LAB

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