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well, the 1st act of kindness was a success!!! We prayed about what we should do and decided going into the day we wouldn't plan anything we would do either what was in front of us at the store (take a shopping cart back, help somebody else with groceries, etc.) A trip to Kroger was in order for the day. While there, we decided to buy a vase of beautiful flowers and a card.
We took the flowers & card to our next door neighbor. We have lived next door to them for almost 7 years. We speak when we see each other out in the yard and that is about it. How sad is that? We haven't been loving out neighbor have we? Cody wrote in the card, thanks for being great neighbors. God blessed us with you all as neighbors. The card was signed from the Gollihue family, Elliott, Lea Ann, Cody & Miss Ellie. Ellie walked the flowers over and handed them to the husband...who thanked her for the flowers. I received a call within 5 minutes from the wife thanking us for the flowers and card and wondered what they had done to deserve such a nice gesture. She used the word "shocked" She was shocked by our act of kindness. I told her that it was almost 7 years overdue. That we have been blessed and thank God for them and this was just a small way for us to show them.
However, her comment about being shocked by our kindness really made me think. Do we live in a society that we aren't normally nice? If you are nice to someone are they expecting you to ask them for something? or do they think you are thanking them for an act that they have done for you? Huh, nonetheless, I know they were thrilled but more than that my heart is smiling as I know we were kind today.
Praise be to God whom all blessings flow!!!
On your mark, get set, be kind.....
love ya to the moon & back,
Annie
That's a great observation. We live in a society that's got a sickening sense of entitlement... most people only think about themselves. Many people are so accustomed to being used and abused and neglected that a random act of kindness can absolutely shock them. Sometimes I'm shocked when people do something as simple as open the door for me. We walk through our days in a fog sometimes, and some of us have these invisible blinders that keep us from looking at the world around us. They keep us from reaching out to love one another. Kudos to you for looking around and thinking of what you can do just to make someone smile. That's just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteThat's lovely - 'seven years overdue'. You realy did 'love your neighbours'. I bet it really uplifted them a whole lot.
ReplyDeleteNeighbours are really special - they're the people you sometimes see more often than your extended family. If we look after them then we're already making our society a lot nicer to live in and right on our doorstep. When my Dad was dying our neighbours left food on the table outside for us - which was great as we'd been living off yoghurt you could buy in the hospital. They also drove us to hospital and back daily for weeks. Once when our car crashed in the village about ten neighbours in the middle of the night in the rain helped us get it out with two tractors. In France if you get stuck you call in at the nearest house - its like everyone's a neighbour.