The Risk of Doing Nothing. . .


 


I was coming back from a run to the grocery store yesterday on county road 100 S.  Coming down the hill, you can see a good ways.  I saw a woman walking on the side of the road, and a car stopped several times, pulled ahead, turned around and stopped again and she continued walking.

Something didn't look right.  When I pulled up just past the stop sign, the car had pulled into a driveway, and the woman continued to walk just past the driveway to the east.

The car honked at me, as I rolled down my window, and asked her if she was all right.  She replied that "yes" she was.  I said that I thought she might be having a problem.  She thanked me for stopping, and said, no that it was her husband in the car.

I don't know, but from the appearances, it looked like they were having some kind of squabble.   At least I gave her a chance to remove herself from the situation if she had wanted to. . . 

Per Edmund Burke:

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing"

Yeah there's a risk in getting involved, but a greater risk in doing nothing. . . 

Thank you Lord. . . 

❤

Dave

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