Some years ago on Christmas Eve, a stressed-out Christine Basney was raising four children, studying in college and working in a small Michigan country store when Richard Heath walked into the store.
Heath bought a scratch-off lottery ticket and won $100.00. He asked for his winnings in two $50.00 bills. Then he gave one of the bills to Basney and one to her co-worker as Christmas gifts.
Fast forward ten years later. Basney is now a registered nurse. She walks into a patient’s room to introduce herself. She was surprised to see it was Richard Heath. They both recognized each other immediately.
Basney later said, “As soon as I saw him, my eyes welled up with tears. I told him Christmas that year had been the roughest one ever for me and that $50.00 went a long way. I was deeply honored to be caring for him.
“I never forgot how kind total strangers can be…..and I have tried my hardest to be as kind as the lottery man was to me.”
That’s how love works…..It isn’t taught. It’s caught.
Thanks to Waldemar for the photo.
Think of a similar experience in YOUR life, where an act of kindness rippled out like throwing a pebble into the water.
SOCIETY SAYS, “LOOK OUT FOR YOURSELF.” BUT GOD SAYS, “LOOK OUT FOR OTHERS AND I WILL LOOK OUT FOR YOU!”
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