I've been struggling with how to get this website back up running and on fire. Today is the day the spark has taken hold.
Nineteen years ago, within the hour, my life began to turn upside down in a very public place. No one around me noticed.
I am declaring this day to be the first annual . . .
Be Kind to Everyone You Encounter Day . . . For you know not what they are living.
My husband had a pain crash the day before, one he couldn't "bounce back" from. The next morning I called his doctor to ask if it was time to call in hospice.
I was at the grocery store, in the checkout line, during rush hour, when the doctor returned my call. I expected his response, but it was a dead-center gut punch nonetheless.
I had always tried to be kind to others, but this provided an entirely new lens. It was magnified a few months later when I was back in that same grocery store checkout line a day or so after my husband died. No one knew I was a walking-wounded, brand new widow.
We have absolutely no idea with what anyone else is living. If we did, I am sure we would be more kind to them.
This is just the beginning!!!
I am declaring this day to be the first annual . . .
Be Kind to Everyone You Encounter Day . . . For you know not what they are living.
My husband had a pain crash the day before, one he couldn't "bounce back" from. The next morning I called his doctor to ask if it was time to call in hospice.
I was at the grocery store, in the checkout line, during rush hour, when the doctor returned my call. I expected his response, but it was a dead-center gut punch nonetheless.
I had always tried to be kind to others, but this provided an entirely new lens. It was magnified a few months later when I was back in that same grocery store checkout line a day or so after my husband died. No one knew I was a walking-wounded, brand new widow.
We have absolutely no idea with what anyone else is living. If we did, I am sure we would be more kind to them.
This is just the beginning!!!
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