I’ve always believed there were angels walking among us and I am able to find articles that give me hope for the country but this one has to be of the best. Imagine you are a police officer and while you are on duty, you drive past a homeless man who doesn’t have any shoes.
Now let me add that it’s cold and the homeless man had been walking so long he couldn’t walk anymore. What would you do?
Officer Mark Valenzuela decided to give this homeless man some shoes from his patrol car. Then in front of a gathering crowd, the officer bent down and put the shoes on the homeless man. This is what America is all about.
From We Support The Blue:
Raymond Celaya happened to be in the area Friday afternoon, and rather than intervening in the situation, he stood back and recorded what he witnessed. Phoenix Police Officer Mark Valenzuela had approached the unidentified homeless man with a question when he immediately took notice of what stunned him about the man’s feet.
They were bare, and it was cold outside, even for the typically mild Arizona city. But with no shoes or socks, he had walked his feet raw, and he couldn’t go another step. Valenzuela thought something was very familiar to him when he looked at the homeless man’s feet.
While it’s common for the homeless to be without proper shoes, Valenzela realized at that moment that he had a pair of shoes that might fit this man, who had a much greater need for them. He grabbed the practically new footwear from his patrol car, but he didn’t just simply hand them to the homeless man. What he did next was a real act of selfless love for a stranger.
The officer asked the vagrant to have a seat on the back of his car and told him to get comfortable. He knelt before the needy man and dressed his feet in a warm pair of socks he had for him, before sliding each new shoe on the man’s feet. He took special care to make sure they fit him well and that they were comfortable. They didn’t just suffice, the shoes were his exact size.
The grateful homeless man reached into his pocket and grabbed a few bucks to give to the caring cop for the shoes. Officer Valenzuela told him that the gift didn’t come from him and that all glory goes to God. “He was just very thankful. I could see a little bit of money in his pocket, he had some dollar bills and some change,” the kindhearted cop explained. “He wanted to pay me for the shoes and I just told him they were a gift from God.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_2J-5SYFy8
This was so beautiful. To Officer Valenzuela, thank you for being an example to others in uniform. Thank you for serving your community. May God Bless you with much more and may his heavenly angels always encamp around you and protect you.
I support the men in blue because I know just how tough a job they have in front of them. What did you think of this officer’s generosity? Share your comments below and add this to your Facebook and Twitter page.
