Nov. 6: Unemployed Hero Rewarded with Job

Last updated on: November 6, 2013 at 5:00 am by Patheos Daily Reflections

Nov. 6: Unemployed Hero Rewarded with Job 2013-10-24T23:06:10-04:00 Patheos Daily Reflections

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Thirty-year-old Delroy Simmonds was on his way to a job interview when he saw a gust of wind blow a baby carriage holding nine-month-old David Zamara onto the train tracks at Brooklyn’s Van Siclen Avenue station. Even worse, the train was approaching. Without thinking, Simmonds jumped onto the tracks and lifted the injured boy and his stroller to safety.

Though he was hailed a hero by the media, Simmonds’s rescue of Zamara prevented him from making it to his interview on time. Moved by Simmonds’s noble actions, Guy Rodriguez, project manager of ABM Janitorial Services at Kennedy International Airport, offered the unemployed father of two a position a mere two days later.

Simmonds’s reacted humbly to being called a hero. “I’m just a normal person,” he told the Daily News. “Anybody in that situation should have done what I did.”

God bless the unsung heroes who perform small miracles every day.

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. (John 15:13)

Father, may we always be inspired to help others in need.

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