Mel:
Today at work was pretty busy...lots of things to catch up on and just happened to be one of the days that the residents really really wanted to talk! I had resident after resident wheeling in and starting to share stories. I was made for stories..I love them, I love to hear them and could possibly be addicted to listening to them. Sometimes it goes in waves where they will be in and just want to say hi but other times they will want to sit and share for a long time. I know they need that time to talk and I am working in their home and am totally privileged to share this time with them. I found myself struggling to keep up on work and give them attention...I decided to put my work down anytime during the day and pay attention to each resident and give them my total focus. Which meant that I might have to work OT or work super speed the next few days to catch up. Lots of good stories on this day...One resident wanted to tell me all about how Elvis was coming today and she was going to sing with him... : ) it was worth it.
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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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