Use Me

Posted on April 3, 2022 by mitchteemley

Today I Saved a Life

“When you’re drowning and someone is reaching down from a rock and says, ‘Grab my hand!’ you do it! That’s when it’s all right to use someone, Alec, because that’s how they got there. That’s how I did. I mean, I still barely even have my own footing, but I’m saying, ‘Grab my hand. Use me!’”

~from the novel Healing River

“Freely you have received. Freely give.”

~Matthew 10:8

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About mitchteemley

Writer, Filmmaker, Humorist, Thinker-about-stuffer
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10 Responses to Use Me

  1. Rita Sommers-Flanagan says:
    April 3, 2022 at 11:34 am

    Hey MItch, for some reason, this reminds me of Marge Piercy’s poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57673/to-be-of-use

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  2. CommonSenseTom says:
    April 3, 2022 at 12:39 pm

    Summed up in two words: Pay Forward

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  5. joynealkidney says:
    April 3, 2022 at 6:32 pm

    I’d like to get a hold of that novel. Also the one you’re serializing on Saturdays. Someday!

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  7. Maren says:
    April 4, 2022 at 6:46 am

    So often too busy to notice the hand — the helper or the desperate one.

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  8. K.L. Hale says:
    April 4, 2022 at 9:40 am

    Amen, Mitch. This touches my heart! 💛

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