Sundays with Scott – "Suppose We Build a School"

Ok Pixelshot readers. I’m starting a new weekly tradition: Sundays with Scott. Since Sundays are a day when Robin and I look for spiritual rejuvenation and inspiration, and since there are several visitors to the Pixelshot site on Sundays, I thought it would be great to post a spiritual thought or something inspiring each Sunday that everyone would enjoy.

As we were walking home from church today, I mentioned this idea to Robin and she said: “Sundays with Scott.” A little presumptuous perhaps, but funny. No need to look any further for a name.

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So, for today’s inaugural weekly posting I picked a touching interview found on washingtonpost.com’s site called onBeing, an interview series of “regular folks” like you and me. The whole series is quite insightful (even the idiosyncratic interview of a turkey).

Since I saw it a few days ago, I have been thinking about this particular interview with a sweet man named Eddie. Eddie seems to be a quite simple person who works two jobs, one of which is at a cafe which happens to be right down the street from where we live. He explains that one of his friends in Liberia said the children had nowhere to go to school. “Suppose we build a school” said Eddie.

With part of the income from his two jobs, Eddie sent home enough money to build the school. And now he sends enough money to keep it running.

“If I do all I can by the grace of God…” he says, “and give them hope that they will have better future. Those people that are spending my sweat…for one or two will be like me…will want to use their life to help someone.”

What is notable about this man is that he is doing what most of us would consider heroic: building and paying for a school in Liberia. Yet, he’s a simple man of little means. But, he’s committed to doing good in the world. Serving others.

“What makes people important to others is what you do not for yourself but for others.”

Now THAT is inspiring. (watch the interview)

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See you next Sunday!