Baby, Pink Roses

This last weekend, I did nothing that I should have. I had housework, laundry, grocery shopping and many other things that I should have done...but I didn't do any of them! Why? I just didn't, no good reason. I did rest & relax & nap! By Monday morning, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed and in a funk, so I decided to take the day off work. I was very productive and by the end of the day, I was back to my normal, chipper self! The best part of my day was when I went to the grocery store. In line behind me was the sweetest little, older lady who was just jabbering on & on to me...and I was keeping right up with her! Each week, I always buy fresh flowers for our home and I had picked up the most beautiful, baby, pink roses and some gorgeous, pastel yellow gebera daisies. When I was leaving, I wrapped up the roses, gave them to the little lady, put my arm around her and told her that I wanted her to take them home. You would have thought that I gave her the winning lotto ticket with her response! Even the grocery checker said, "That was sweet of you." I never think that little acts of kindness such as that should be so surprising, instead, we should all be doing those type of things every day! Each time that I have soaked in the beauty of our yellow gerbera daisies, I have thought of this little lady and just smiled. Part of my giving to others is somewhat selfish on my part. I do it because it makes me so happy and just brings me so much joy! At the end of my day, I read this little note in a magazine and I had to laugh:

Stop measuring yourself based on how much you get done in any given day, and start celebrating yourself on how much you discover. Let go of being the world's greatest efficiency expert and embrace the role of lover and adventurer.

Oh, how I am going to embrace that advice!

Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.