Acts of Kindness

 I know...people, like my family, do nice things for me all the time and I rarely say anything about what they do.  Occasionally I will thank Gary for something, like taking me out for dinner or unloading the dishwasher or folding the clean clothes.  But I don't really dwell on what they do for me.

However, I notice when others do something kind, just out of the blue.  Three things recently...

Tina -  I was feeling a little bit blue a few weeks ago, the usual 'no one likes me' and 'I have no friends' when in the mailbox I found a card.  Tina had sent me a 'just because' type of card with a nice note and reminded me that we needed to plan a lunch or dinner soon.  She was free after a Board of Directors meeting for Carrol White REMC so we planned to meet at Brick and Mortar in Delphi for dinner after her meeting.

Ryan - A few days ago I received a FB message from Ryan asking for Dad's full name.  I sent a returned message with Norman Henderson as the text.  Then he said he was looking for the bench at the Wayne County Fairgrounds.  Now I knew it was fair week, and I thought I had probably mentioned Mom and Dad's bench at one time, but that was a few years ago.  He remembered.  He searched for it.  He found it.  There were too many people gathered around it at the bridge from the cattle show arena into the main part of the fairgrounds for him to take a picture.  BUT.... two days ago he sent me two pictures.  One was of the bench itself, and the other was one of three of his kiddos sitting on the bench (or rather climbing on it). For him to remember about the bench, then search for it, then pose his kids on it for a picture....very special to me.  He didn't have to do that.

Bonnie - One of the Dotti's ladies.  I started with the DWLZ group in 2005,  Slowly I became acquainted with some of those who posted regularly.  Eventually I met a few of them...Karen from Decatur (we meet in Wabash for lunch).  Trish in Myrtle Beach.  Gin and Bob in Tampa.  Karen F and Linda from Michigan at Shipshewana.  Today I added Bonnie to the list.  She lives in Stoughton, WI.  We had been at The Wisconsin Dells for 10 days and were driving home.  Her house is just a few miles off the interstate we were traveling and it was easy to just stop and say hello.   It turned out to be a two and a half hour visit.  She fixed breakfast for us.  She gave us a tour of her house and explained the process of its final layout.  We chatted about her husband who died several years ago of Lewy's Body Syndrome.  She shared information about her three daughters, their husbands, and her grandchildren.  It was just a nice visit.  Plus she gave me a gift---a bottle of peach wine from Aldi's!  She said it was the best so I am hoping I like it!  We gave her a bottle from the last winery we visited in Baraboo the other day.  It was just nice to be excited to see someone I had texted with and who had been posting in the same forums I had for the last 15 years.  She also was the saving grace for me when I was searching for Green Bay Packers fabric for the baby quilts for Lindsey and Shawn Geyer's twins.  

I feel so blessed by these three people.  I know that their kindness is something that was really special to me, and I think that IS so special because I always heard my mother telling me that no one liked me, nor would they ever like me unless they had an ulterior motive for acting like they did.  Another bad influence from my mom that I need to dismiss right?

Tonight I will thank God for these three special people in my lief and for their acts of kindness (and for Gary and the girls also!).