As I wrote in my column The Grand Canyon:
A chance meeting between two people can have implications for those people for the rest of their lives.
You never know when someone will enter your life and change everything. It could be today. It could be tomorrow. Don’t take any encounter you have for granted. You could be walking down the street tomorrow and run into a complete stranger and they may become your best friend, your greatest confidant.
Think about that the next time you want to lash out at someone you don’t know.
Maybe they cut you off in traffic.
Maybe they said something cruel.
Instead of LASHING out, why not REACH out, as the teacher did in this video called:
Make a Difference. As this teacher discovered, the student’s reasons for being sullen, obstinate, distant were rooted in his past. Reach out and offer comfort to someone who is being cruel.
You just may discover a tender heart lies within after all. Maybe a broken heart that just needs someone to care, someone to understand, someone to listen. What can it hurt to give love instead of hate. Give love instead of anger.
Can you make a difference today?
Can you shift your initial M.O. from lashing out to reaching out.
Be Happy! Be Well! Be Positive!
Blessings to you.
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Chris
Re: your second paragraph:
This has happened to me twice in the last couple of years. I’m so blessed to have these 2 friends. Their lives are as different from each others as can be but they are both so very special to me.
Thanks for stopping by, Marge.
Beautiful post Chris. I meet many persons online who have asked me to pray for them. It is a blessing to do that and then to hear from them the praise report of the difference made in their life. Blessings!
Hi Yvonne:
I see this all the time, in my interactions w/everyone I come into contact with. I do my best to shower people w/positive energy because it is how I’d want to be treated and I love seeing the smile on their faces as they leave my presence.
It is so important for me to leave people w/light, to give them a positive experience, to leave them wanting to return.
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Chris
Reaching out today, Chris, with love and grace!
Blessings!
So nice to be reminded of this again and again — sentiment can never be said too much
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