Thursday, October 25, 2007
Eureka!
Eureka!
I found it!
I found an opportunity to perform an act of random kindness this evening.
Dan and I had dinner with Ed and Alicia Hodge tonight in Salisbury. (The Hodge's attend the Charlotte church and currently serve Bishop Elms as the Student Pastor)
We were talking over dinner about the Bible and how different scriptures have affected us. We didn't even realize that our server was listening in our conversation.
Long story short... our server ended up in the booth behind us pouring her heart out to us, and talking about how she was really trying to live for God, but her life has been very hard lately. Her finances have taken a turn for the worse,she has an eighteen month old son, on top of that, her husband is down in his health and cannot work right now, her mother recently had open heart surgery, etc., etc., etc.
She began to cry. (this is not the first time this has happened to us this week - there are so many needs that we can meet - Dan and I ran into another guy at Walmart of all places, as we began to ask him how he was, he began to cry. He felt like he had no reason to live... more on this opportunity to show kindness in a later post...)
We encouraged Candice, our server, and reminded her that God will never allow us to carry burdens that are too heavy for us - we talked about being tried and how God would help us through difficult times if we had faith in Him.
We left her with a smile on her face and hugs all around. We feel like we did the right thing - we emptied our pockets on top of giving a 30% tip to help her with her finances.
We found the act of random kindness today - now, what will I do tomorrow?
Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail!
I found it!
I found an opportunity to perform an act of random kindness this evening.
Dan and I had dinner with Ed and Alicia Hodge tonight in Salisbury. (The Hodge's attend the Charlotte church and currently serve Bishop Elms as the Student Pastor)
We were talking over dinner about the Bible and how different scriptures have affected us. We didn't even realize that our server was listening in our conversation.
Long story short... our server ended up in the booth behind us pouring her heart out to us, and talking about how she was really trying to live for God, but her life has been very hard lately. Her finances have taken a turn for the worse,she has an eighteen month old son, on top of that, her husband is down in his health and cannot work right now, her mother recently had open heart surgery, etc., etc., etc.
She began to cry. (this is not the first time this has happened to us this week - there are so many needs that we can meet - Dan and I ran into another guy at Walmart of all places, as we began to ask him how he was, he began to cry. He felt like he had no reason to live... more on this opportunity to show kindness in a later post...)
We encouraged Candice, our server, and reminded her that God will never allow us to carry burdens that are too heavy for us - we talked about being tried and how God would help us through difficult times if we had faith in Him.
We left her with a smile on her face and hugs all around. We feel like we did the right thing - we emptied our pockets on top of giving a 30% tip to help her with her finances.
We found the act of random kindness today - now, what will I do tomorrow?
Questions, comments, concerns? Please feel free to E-mail!
Labels: Bishop Elms, christie ponjican, ed and alicia hodge, north carolina, random acts of kindness
# posted by Dan Ponjican @ 9:16 PM 
