Mel:
There is a resident at work who is very sweet to me. She brings me things and leaves candy on my desk. She once snuck her lunch out of the dining hall and wrapped a piece of fried chicken in a plastic bag and was smuggling it to me in case I was hungry! haha I have heard her talking about milkshakes a few times before..vanilla milkshakes. I thought about her today when I was out running errands for work and stopped to pick up a vanilla milkshake. You would have thought I brought her a million dollars. She was so grateful..asking me if I could please take money out of her account to pay me for it. Which I did not do....Oh man, a plain vanilla milkshake can make some one's average day, great...I'll have to pocket this one and get her on a milkshake rotation!
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Cole-CJ-Kendall
365 days..2 adults..3 kids, with Kindness on the mind...
So..Here's the Deal
One day a few years back..I went to a coffee shop and went through the drive through. When I went to pay for my drink, the woman who worked there told me that the man before me left money and wanted to pay for the next person's drink. Seems like a simple thing but it was huge for me. I was blown away by the simple kindness of a stranger..I then gave her money and asked her to pay for the next drink on me. She laughed and it all never left me. There was something about the act..that it was small in a way, but hugely thoughtful and it was caused by action. More than just feeling something for someone or about something. $3.67 ended up being worth so much more. Nate and I were praying on New Years Eve as we went to bed and he asked me what I wanted to do this year. All I could say was..help people. He asked me, how? I wasn't sure yet. So..when the idea popped into the brain, I ran it by Nate and he was IN. Nate took it before the council of children to get their opinions and see if this was something they wanted to be a part of and could be committed too. The kids thought about it and decided, they were IN! So we have a team..a team of 5. We have decided to take on 365 days of kindness. Each of us will take a day in a rotation. We expect it to be fun, hard, challenging, exciting, all things really. Starting each day asking God to help us out and give us ideas, give us people. Maybe somedays it will be a big deal. Most days, probably little deals. I don't know, really. I know that I want our family to change mostly. To be a family that thinks beyond ourselves. To consider others and their needs everyday. To ask God and do all good deeds because we love Him first and consider Him first. This could be a very cool year. So, we are going to keep our stories on here..mostly so we can remember them for ourselves. If God uses any of them to speak to you, that would be cool too.
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