Zone1 My being discreet may have been the wrong thing to do...

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I missed where the JWs are called to interpret and enforce God's rules.

 

[Arlette]

Life is full of opportunities to help other people.

I'm a lawyer and one day I was in court, waiting for my case to be called.

The judge was doing the criminal calender, taking pleas of guilty or not guilty.

A Hispanic man, who knew no English, was being charged for lewd conduct because he got drunk and peed in a fountain at a mall.

He pled guilty to a charge that would force him to register as a sex offender. The judge asked him, "Are you sure you don't want a lawyer?" He said, no, he was guilty.

I could have stood up and told the judge I would represent the man. Had I done so, I could have gotten the prosecutor to charge him with a lesser crime like "drunk and disorderly" and he wouldn't be a registered sex offender.

But I sat there and did nothing, and it haunts me to this day.

Those are not random missed opportunities to help others. That's how you react when you see someone needing help. All that other people stuff just isn't your thing.