Gifts…

Gifts come in all sized packages and in all kinds of ways to us and often when least expected too.

In the midst of my own health challenges my mom ended up with an emergency heart catheterization procedure this week and a stent was put in to correct the 95% blockage in her main artery. Fortunately she is doing well and I have been able to rest up at her house and hopefully will not slide backwards health wise myself!

There have been many gifts with all this “stuff” happening in my life from beautiful sunrises, to finally getting to see a gorgeous sunset this summer, to tender moments with my furry cuddly little kitties, to having some friends of my mom in law buy us all dinner on my mom in law’s birthday, to my mom’s blockage being diagnosed before she had a heart attack! And there are undoubtedly at least a thousand other gifts I have been given in the last two months.

A very special gift given recently has been the opportunity to visit a bit with my mom’s 95 year old hospital roommate who is articulate and gracious and you would not in a minute guess her to be anywhere close to being 95! She is a dear woman who after having been at the hospital for a week did not have any flowers at her bedside and only one visitor that I noticed too. I decided to get her some flowers when I picked up some for my mom. Victoria was so delighted with them and so grateful. She beamed.

We can really make someone’s day with very little effort!

I think those people who so kindly paid for my dinner made me think just a bit about that reality. They inspired me.

I called Victoria with a book title just a little bit ago and she told me that I had been a stranger to her but not anymore. I shed a happy tear after I hung up the phone.

We just never know where our daily travels will take us and who we will have the opportunity to meet along the way.

Victoria I am so very grateful for having met you! You’ve been a gift to me when I really needed to experience a gift like you.

What might you do to make someone’s day a little brighter today?