Loving the Least of These

Today after church my mom and I headed down to the Salvation Army to find Alice. When we got there we got out of the car to go find her, and once we found her my mom went to talk to her and I went back to the car to get her cart. Mom said that when she went over there to talk to her, Alice knew who she was when she said that we had brought something for her. Alice said, "Did you get me a cart?!?" and when mom told her that we did she jumped up to show her where she had layed all of her stuff while she waited in line for food this afternoon. About that time I walked over with the cart and we opened it and set it up for her, and piled her stuff on, and we strapped it down for her. She was soooo excited! I loved watching her, she was smiling! [not something we could get her to do last night] She said 'thank you, thank you' probably a hundred times while we were there. It just amazes me that at $20 metal, two wheeled cart could make someones day. Sometimes I wonder what the world would look like if we continually poured out small blessings like this. $20 is nothing, but it meant the world to Alice today. Maybe these small blessings dont have to cost $20, maybe its just going and spending time with someone who feels forgotten, and alone. Maybe its baking cookies for someone, or maybe even something as small as a hug. Something that at times can seem so insignificant, but yet can change someones whole day. I wonder if we poured out these blessings all the time if we would actually see the world changing.

Lets be a blessing to someone today.