Hi guys! Having a good day? This week is a busy one for me, but a forecast of sunshine should help me get through it! Plus the extra hour of daylight is a nice treat. Now I can resist the urge of putting my pajamas on when I get home from work at 6pm.
Today's testimonial comes from a reader who preferred to remain anonymous, much like the kind, generous person in her story. It's pretty incredible.
Many years ago my first husband was dying of pancreatic cancer. We had two very young children. Christmas was coming, I had just finished my Master's degree days before the diagnosis, I could find only part time work, and the bills were mountainous. My husband's health benefits were not as good as we thought they were. We were on the road to losing our home and I was having a hard time purchasing food for our family. Christmas was looking very dark emotionally and financially -- and another surgery was scheduled just before the holidays. Christmas Eve the kids decided to play outside. To our amazement we found several laundry sized baskets of food on our doorstep along with one basket full of Christmas gifts for my children. To this day I have never found out who left them there. The baskets of food continued once a week through the month after my husband died and I found a full time job.
To honor that person or the people who were so generous and gave of their hearts, I have tried every year to do something special for children during and after the holidays. Now that my current husband and I own a business, we are including our customers for an annual event to make toys for children. This past year a Boy Scout decided to use our venue to earn his Community Service award toward his Eagle level. He coordinated a toy making activity among his peers and constructed 78 toys to donate!
NICE does spread. Sometimes slowly. One person at a time. But it happens with amazement!
It's wonderful that she has used that kind gesture as inspiration to pass it on! Now hopefully the recipients of her kind acts will do the same, and so on and so on! :)
Do you have a NICE:Testimonial that you'd like to share? If so, click here to send me an email!
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
What a fantastic story. I love that the writer does this every year to honor the person who helped her so long ago. It's also totally awesome that the original NICE-doer chose to remain totally anonymous, and is still anonymous even though many years have passed. Really inspiring!
Wow...truly inspiring!
Spread Lurve. Spread Nice
^_____^
Post a Comment