Wanted to tell you two stories about Pay It Forward:

1. Using my $1 to Pay It Forward this week was really easy. My pregnant daughter called me while I was still in bed and said she was wiped out on the sofa and craving Burger King bacon, egg and cheese croissants. So I got up, got dressed and went through the drive-thru (since I hadn't had my shower yet and didn't have makeup on) and made her dream come true!

2. But I really want to tell you about something that happened to me last week.

I had gone to the post office and when I drove up I heard a gentleman in the parking lot on a rather loud and stressed phone call. He was pacing all over with a very distressed and hurting look on his face. There was a very small trailer attached to his car.  I went on in, not wanting to make him uncomfortable. While I was inside, he came in and began almost crying to the clerk that he had no place to live, no where to go, etc. (He came to the p.o. b/c he was concerned about where his mail would go.) But he kept saying he was in so much trouble and didn't have any idea what he was going to do. My heart broke for him but I had no idea how or if I should/could help him.

When I went back to my car I thought about putting a note and the $20 bill I had in my wallet on his window. Well, I drove off instead and made it about 1/2 block down the road when God clearly told me that the idea was indeed HIS and not mine. So I immediately turned around and went back to the post office and wrote a note of encouragement which I left with the $20 on his window.  I quickly drove away so as not to be detected and went through the drive-thru at McDonald's to get a $1 large soda. When I went to pay, the lady informed me that the gentleman in the truck in front of me had paid for mine. What a cool way for God to show me that He takes care of me even with covering $1 (which I would have had to scrape the change together to pay) for a soda. It also made me feel more loved by the guy that paid for my soda than proud of myself for what I had done. And way more in love with my Jesus! For a person that struggles a lot with feeling loved and accepted, I have to say that that stranger's simple act of paying $1 for me made me feel so loved. I smiled the rest of the day because of it. We never know who is behind us and what they are struggling with and how our simple little acts of love and kindness might possibly change/save their life.

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