The following story was shared by Ed Salmon, a pastor from South Carolina, who passed away in 2016:

Just yesterday, I went out for lunch. When I got to Forest Park, there's usually a homeless man or two standing there, and there was this terribly disheveled man standing there with his sign, "I'm homeless." And of course, he was going by the cars, and nobody looked at him. He got to my car, and I rolled down the window, and I said, "I don't have any money with me, but my wife is going to take me to the airport in about an hour and a half, and I'll have something for you then. And do you know what he said to me? He said, "Thank you for looking at me." Didn't say a word about money. He said, "Thank you for looking at me."

Salmon then gave the following charge to his fellow ministers (although this can apply to every Christian): "You see, the Good Shepherd is raising you up so that the world you minister to can look at you and say, "Thank you for looking at me, because in that, I see the glory of God."