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It's a picture of the heavenly Helper offering just the right provision at just the right time.</font></p><p><font COLOR="#000066">4.<b> Helping is its own antidote.<br></b>If you want help, the best thing to do is to help someone else. For under each helping act is a hidden reward to the helper.</font></p><p><font COLOR="#000066">5.<b> Each of us has a helping muscle, that if not regularly developed or exercised, will atrophy and die.<br></b>Exercise it and we live. To develop it, just look for opportunities to add life.</font></p><p><font COLOR="#000066">6.<b> Helping is carrying out God's design for us.<br></b>Helping started with God, &quot;For God so loved the world He gave..&quot; It is a pattern so strong, that if we don't follow it, we lose out on life itself.</font></p><p><font COLOR="#000066">7.<b> Helping does have its costs.<br></b>Could be a few minutes to send a note. May be a little longer to check on a stranded traveler.</font></p><p><font COLOR="#000066">8.<b> The opposite of helping ought to be called &quot;Selfing.&quot;<br></b>Selfing would be circling the wagons or treating life as a rear guard action. It would be folding in to life with a &quot;what's in it for me&quot; shell. True help looks for no return.</font></p><p><font COLOR="#000066">9.<b> Helping is an attitude that precedes us like a wave.<br></b>It colors others' opinions of us even before we speak. It is placing our own agenda on hold, while directing our attention to the one lacking.</font></p><p><font COLOR="#000066">10.<b> Helping is the highest form of expressing &quot;I care.&quot;<br></b>The best helping, shhh, it's done in secret.&nbsp;</font></p></td></tr><tr Valign=Top Align=Left><td Colspan=5 Height=3></td></tr><tr Valign=Top Align=Left><td Colspan=2></td><td Colspan=2 Width=408><!-- Start of Text (Text145) --><h3><font COLOR="#000066"></font><font COLOR="#000066" Size="-2">About the Submitter<br>This piece was originally submitted by Duke, BS, FHIMSS, who can be reached at drohe@pdq.net, or visited on the web. 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