All I Did Was Pick Up Some Trash

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” Mt. 5:16

As soon as I bent down and started to pick up some trash off the hotel lobby floor, the kind, sweet voice of a young woman behind the desk whom I had come to know while staying at the hotel called out to me.

“You don’t have to do that,” she said. Emphatically.

“Oh, I don’t mind,” I said happily.

“No, really, you don’t have to do that,” she replied. “You shouldn’t be do...