Canada report # 23

I was walking from train station, it was cold, windy and it was snowing (yucky would be a good word). In the midst of all of that there was a man shoveling snow. He was wearing shorts, which I found weird, but whatever, I was on my way to Tim Horton’s to read a book. An hour latter I went for my buss stop and here he was still shoveling snow. By now he must have shoveled almost a kilometer of sidewalks. I was impressed. He was coming closer and closer to my buss stop; all people were watching him work. Eventually he was working around our buss stop. One lady said to this man in shorts, “In days like that it must be hard to like your job?” He stopped just for a second, “it is not my job I am doing it as a service to Jesus. He said let you light shine and this is my way of doing it.” Only then I noticed that he had a big, red cross on his jacket. He said couple other words and went back to his business like it was the most natural thing to do. My buss came in ten minutes; when I was leaving I still saw him shoveling snow, in shorts and with the cross on his jacket.
Some how a volunteer shoveling public side walks is not a popular picture of Christian. Is it because this man was not accurate picture of what Jesus intended His people to be? Is it because we are not what we are supposed to be anymore? I don’t know.