Well although it has been an event-filled week, I have not put the time aside to blog about it until now. For the last month and a half, I have been rehearsing and preparing, along with a few others, for an upcoming Christmas-variety-drama-music-night. It has been a fantastic way to meet people from our new church, and I was so grateful to be a part of it. We had the performance tonight, and despite the -30 weather (gotta love Sask winters!) there was a full crowd. We will be heading back to Tsawwassen for Christmas on Friday - the days can't pass quickly enough! - so this was our last church-do until we return. It was a great night!
Over the course of getting ready for the program, I was able to connect with a lot of the people from the church who I might not have had the chance of getting to know otherwise.
There is one lady in particular, her name is Barbara, and I have honestly come to really love her in this short amount of time. She is unlike most people, extremely open and welcoming, always reading right where people are at, and offering up the most poignant pieces of advice and wisdom even despite not knowing people all that well. I really admire her honesty and loving approach to others. Sometimes when I meet people like that I feel as though I owe them something -like they are this way only for acknowledgment or for something in return- but I have seen just the opposite from Barbara. My step-dad always used to give my siblings and I this challenge: Are you kind when NO ONE is watching?
I still think back on that challenge today. often. I want to be the type of person who is kind for the sake of it. Not because I will benefit, but because others will. Just a thought!
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