A magician, wanting to thrill an agent, performed his best tricks. He produced a canary in a cage, floated his assistant, and then threw a blanket over himself and disappeared.

"What do you think?" he asked the agent.

"The trick where you vanished," he replied, "do that first."

Some people live on others, not for others; they hinder, they don't help; they blight, they don't bless; they make you happy when they leave, not when they arrive.

But that wasn't true of a believer named Dorcas. In describing her, the Living Bible says, she "was always doing kind things for others, especially the poor."

Are you?