The most beautiful thing just happened to me. It was one of those moments of kindness that still has me smiling. I was on my walk and having a conversation with Jesus and one of my neighbors saw me and came over. She offered to let me pick a little bouquet of daffodils that fill the corner of her yard.
Now you have to know that I love, love, love daffodils. They are like happy little dew drops of straight sunshine and they make me smile. I’ve been wanting daffodils for a few weeks now since they started popping up. I had just been thanking the Lord for the day and thinking how I really wanted him to just show me something special. Lo and behold it wasn’t even a moment later when my neighbor was so kind to offer me one of my very favorite flowers. The thing is though that she didn’t know they were my favorite. In fact she doesn’t really even know me.
It was like the Lord just winked at me and wanted me to know that he was giving me a bouquet. He romances me like that and it’s really the most astonishing thing. It awes me. I don’t need flowers. Yet he knows how much my heart delights in them. So just because he could he made sure I got some. Here’s the thing, the God of the universe who is making sure the sun stays in place also takes the time to see a girl taking a walk and sends some of her favorite flowers her way! That’s amazing! He used a neighbor just being spontaneously kind. It was just a moment but it made my day.
I wonder how the world would change if we took more opportunities to be a moment of kindness to someone else? Not to make us feel good about ourselves but to be the hands and feet of Jesus. Sure random acts of kinds are awesome but what if we were more intentional about doing little things to show people we care. In the long run I think it’s the little things that can make the most impact. It’s taking the time to notice someone and say, “I see you.”
All around you there are people needing to know they aren’t forgotten. Showing someone kindness can change their day maybe even their life. There have been certain moments of kindness shown to me that I will literally never forget because they made such a huge impact on me. Yet I bet that if you were to ask those amazing people about it they wouldn’t even really recall it with much clarity.
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”Mother Teresa
I hope today you choose to give a moment of kindness to someone. I hope it’s for a bigger purpose than just feeling good about doing it (although that certainly is a perk!).
Friends let’s love well.
Will you spread some joy with us today by sharing of a time when someone did something “small” for you that made your day? I’d love to hear your stories about moments of kindness so please leave a comment below. 🙂
Lst Thanksgiving I had hoped to find a place amongst friends in another city… but door after door kept closing in my face, Not that I was not welcome and vlaued, but previous plans made it not possible in place after place. Sunday before, on the hour drive to church meeting, I;d resolved to myself “well, if nothingn else, I’ll just grab the Magic Coffee Box and wander up to the neighbour’s place… Kenny will always make room. At church, as we were preparing for the vening meal after, the Mom of one of our families came up to me and said “Please join us for Thanksgiving. We’d LOVE to have you. I accpted, gladly….. and was totally blown away. Not only thins family, whom I love dearly, but a whole house full of pthers, mostly college students from different parts of the world. There were more than twenty total, from I thin eight dufferent countries/cultures…. believers, non believers, agnostics, unchiurched, moslem, catholic…. all jumping in to prepare foods from different cutlures, then sitting down to share over it all. I made several new friends I’d never have met otherwise. I was transported from sort of stuck in a ho hum get-by situation into a world I’d never have imagined on my own. Challenged and stretched way beyond “normal”, able to share, give, receivel, learn, teach… one girl from China was seriosuly interested in some of the teas I had.. from HER country. The Iranian moslem over the way I do coffee, which he loves. The Mexican of my stroeis of travel in HIS country….. and they all were eager to share the things of home. Many commented later they had never in their lives ever experienced such a wonderful time with others, the sense of love and community they saw was a brand new thing to them, foreign to their own cultures (most of us tend to seek out our own kind, so we’re “comfortable”). I never saw that coming, never could have “put it together”… much like your bouquet of Daffodils. Came from out of nowhere, unexpected, yet reached deep into your soul to satisfy an unexpressed but poewrful longing.
Our God is like that. He KNOWS our frame, and delights to overtake us witih such rich blessings. Whoever tries to say He can’t reach into our world and do practical things for us that “hit us where we live” and nourish the deep longings we have inside simply does not know Him.
and now I have to go roast some coffee to bring along on my next adventure…….. another “special treat” invovling good frieinds and saints, and cinema. Oh, and good company and food, too.
Oh wow what a neat story! I love gatherings like that.
Misselaini,
You did a wonderful kindness to my family when you obeyed God to buy some fancy hospital dresses for a stranger with leukemia! I’m so happy our Father continues to bless you, for you are indeed a blessing!
Oh my! This made my night. Tracy, that was a HUGE blessing for ME! I’m so thankful for you and your family. <3 Sending you a massive hug.
Beautiful beautiful post, your writing just puts me in awe every time I read your posts! Daffodils are my favorite flowers. Much love <3
Sweet friend thank you so much! I’m so grateful for you. You’ve shown me so many moments of kindness. Much love to you! xxx
What a wonderful story!! What a great way to make a new friend too!
Thank you! 🙂 It’s always nice to get to know neighbors better.