Its Saturday night. I’m in my new house having a nice chat with my new housemate. Suddenly, I get a call from Genie upstairs telling me our cars have been egged.

I run outside to see what’s going on and meet my new favorite neighbor. He proceeds to tell us the story of the event now known as “The Egging of Spring 2008.”

He tells us, “I heard noise outside and came out to see our cars being egged by 3 kids. When they saw me, they started running so I chased after them. The two little guys were way ahead… but there was a heavy boy running in the back. I screamed at them, “You’re wasting your time running cause I may not get you, but I’m going to get big boy and he’s going to give me your numbers!” Sure enough. I caught up with big boy and he gave me their numbers. I called them and had them come back and clean off all the egg for your cars. If you want their numbers to call them as well, you can have it.”

All 5 of us were in utter shock at our new favorite neighbor. We thanked him profusely as he continued to bring out more soap and water to catch any of the egg the kids left behind. We of course tried to help him, but he was well ahead of the game on us. He had the water prepared, and sponges- knew exactly what to do. The whole event really turned into little inconvenience at all for us because this man took it all on himself.

Things like this dont happen that often to me. When they do, I stand flabergasted. How many people would have responded the way he did? I dont think many. This man displayed what it means to be Christlike- and whether or not this man is or is not a Christian- he emulated Christ’s call for us on Saturday. He is an example for us to follow and I know me and my housemates are all thankful for it.

Would love to hear stories of people helping you out in your everyday or any other comments you want to share.