Last night I went out with a friend and her son to knock on doors in a neighborhood near our church that has many homes that have been sited for being an eyesore for the neighborhood.The idea was to see if anyone wanted help with yard work or anything else around the home. The plan was to offer this without strings attached; free weeding, planting of new landscape plants that we will provide for free, paint touch-up, hauling away trash, etc. Sounds pretty cool, right?
Well, it's a tough sell. I was surprised how it turned out. Many of the people ignored us completely; some pretended they couldn't hear us knocking, some ran inside their house to hide. One guy seemed pretty insulted. We did find one family that agreed, 2 more were maybes.
Basically I came away with the realization that most people believe that there is nothing free in life ... it's hard to do a good deed when nobody trusts a stranger. But at least some people are interested, I'm sure God will work this one out.
So while I was thinking about our little adventure, I remembered this funny story from a while back and thought it was a good time to share it =)
Two Jehovah's Witnesses were going door to door, and knocked on the door of a woman who was not happy to see them.
The woman told them in no uncertain terms that she did not want to discuss religion and then slammed the door in their faces.
To her surprise, the door did not close. In fact, it bounced back open.
Seeing the two witnesses still standing at the door infuriated her further. She stormed back to the door and flung it shut, but the door still didn't close. She grabbed the door with two hands and shoved it as hard as she could, but again, the door wouldn't shut.
Convinced one of these rude church members was sticking a foot in the door, she reared back to give the door a slam that would really teach them a lesson.
Just then, one of the witnesses said, "Ma'am, before you do that again, you might want to move your cat."
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