Do All the Good You Can

One of Granddaddy’s favorite sayings, especially when someone was leaving the house, was “Do all the good you can.”

Yesterday we met a young man who grew up in Mexico, moved to Arizona, finished high school, and is now working for a landscaping company to make money to go to college. He’s also an accomplished soccer player.

When he played soccer as a child in Mexico, the team didn’t have soccer cleats. They played in tennis shoes. Those children in his home town, playing soccer today, still don’t have cleats. So he has started an effort to get soccer cleats to those kids. Some of his high school teachers and coaches made donations and then someone went to the newspaper. A major story appeared. People from the community started writing checks. Before long, this young man will have enough soccer cleats to fit the entire program in that little Mexican town.

You write it: What’s an example in your life of someone who did all the good they could?