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I read a story the other day of a woman standing at the bottom of an escalator totally terrified. “I can’t believe this,” she kept repeating over and over again. “I can’t believe this. I’m, afraid to get on the escalator. This has never happened to me before.” She kept looking around as if asking others to affirm this fear was something new. You could see it in her eyes. “I’ve ridden escalators for years. What’s wrong with me?”
People grumbled as they passed her. Some even muttered, “Crazy people shouldn’t be allowed out alone.”
And then a woman walked up and said, “It’s all right. Let me help you.” And together they rode to the top of the escalator, the stranger lightly holding the woman’s elbow. It was not saving a city. It was not building a dynasty. It was a simple, small act of kindness that saved, in many ways, a life.
The destiny of little things.
“God surely did make a mess of this world,” complained one man. “I could have certainly make a better world than this.”
“Friend,” his neighbor replied, “that’s why you were given life. To do just that.”
Helping a frightened lady up escalators. Congratulating a $5-an-hour worker on doing a good job. Writing a short note to a friend that reads, “Thank you for being my friend all these years. I just wanted you to know how much better my life has been because of it.”
The destiny of little things.
Will people you complement be left speech-less? Most likely, because people don’t complement each other very often. They would rather wait until a person is dead and then stand around at the cemetery saying what a great person they were.
Dare to be different. Dare, this very day, to do nothing more than walk up to a friend and say, “Thank you.”
I’m serious. Look around right now, and pick out someone you’ve known, loved and appreciated for years, and when walk up to them and say, “Thank you, Louis; Thank you, Bruce; Thank you, Jean; Thank you, Jane….” Think how wonderful it will be to have such words of love and appreciation echoing around the narthex and fellowship hall. And just don’t think about it – lovingly, considerately, out-goingly DO IT!
When you do it I will say thank you for the richness of these two little words to someone’s life. Thank you…thank you…thank you…
You think it’s a good idea but you would be too embarrassed. Too embarrassed to say something nice? Are you too embarrassed to sometimes say something mean? To speak out in anger? Why then, is it so hard to be nice?
Tomorrow say something nice about some-one to that someone. “Thank you, Joe.” And Joe may fall of his chair. “I appreciate that, Mary.” And Mary may be dumbfounded. But
I can guarantee, even if you don’t explain why you said something nice, whoever received your praise will feel good all the rest of the day because you made it obvious they have been a good and positive influence in your life.
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