Thursday, May 14, 2009

Spreading Little Bits of Sweetness


After arriving home from picking in the strawberry fields yet once again this morning, the girls fixed up a little tin pail of strawberries for an elderly shut-in couple.

We visited. Charlotte demonstrated her ballet steps. Photographs of sons and daughters-in-law were passed around to admire. Big hugs wrapped us in warm, old clasps as we were leaving.

You start out to spread goodness but come away smothered in a double dose of sweetness. The blessing boomerangs....I hope my daughters caught it!

awareness of the beauty of life

And yet all we need is an awareness of the beauty in life to make us richly content.   ~Gladys Taber There is much work to do.  On some Satu...