Event

Christ Like Service
This happened to our family a couple of years after we moved from San Jose, California to Colorado.
We were traveling from Colorado to Longmont. Outside of Laramie Wyoming, about 709 miles from home we had a catastrophic engine failure. Our little min-van was toast. This was before the days of cell phones, so we waited for some help to arrive in the form of a highway patrolman, and got a tow truck who towed us into Laramie. We left the van at a repair shop in Laramie, rented a car and drove home. That was on Saturday.
Sunday, a friend from church found out our predicament. Chuck then served our family. He lent us a car so we could get around. He rented a tow bar and he and I drove to Laramie and towed the van back home – to his home where he had a shop. He used his connections to find us a new engine for our sick little van. Then he helped me to replace the engine so that we could have a car again.
All of that was out of the ordinary Christ like service. It is even more impressive when you know that Chuck was legally paralyzed from a broken neck in an automobile accident. He could shuffle around and do some things, but it was a true sacrifice for this man to do this for us. He served a family that he didn't even know very well. In fact, he chastised me for not calling him while we were in Laramie the first time – he would have driven up to get us.
We learned to love Chuck, and I think his service helped him to love our family.
When I think about this Christ like service, I really think of Christ and his service to us. He brought us and taught us the gospel. He taught us right from wrong. He established his church to aid us in returning to him. And he lived and died for us so that he could bring about the atonement, our only chance of returning to live with him and our Father in Heaven. As we ponder this service to us, perhaps it will help us to realize how much he loves us, so that we can love him more.