Random Acts of Giving

I was sitting in the back of a familiar restaurant at a table with my husband and our eight-year-old son. I was casually watching the patrons that came in, as from our table, I had a view of all the tables in the restaurant. Perhaps I preferred sitting at the back of the restaurant, as [...]

Over a year ago, I was making may way around a large city that I was not familiar with when my son and I discovered a favorite restaurant chain that we had not patronized since moving from our home town. We were quite happy about locating the establishment, and decided to have lunch there. [...]

Many times, I have said to others that I have found that doing random acts of giving for complete strangers has often been the most gratifying for me. Of course, as time goes by, the details of my giving experiences are not always foremost in my mind. What I do recall however, is the [...]

Over the years, I have gathered many splendid memories that started from patronizing a particular McDonald’s. Yes, I have heard it before and continue to hear that fast food eating is not the healthiest. I do wonder however, how many that are voicing these opinions honestly practice healthy living in all aspects of their lives. [...]

It may be difficult for some to believe that there are homeless people who have not lived in nor had the humble privilege of visiting in a comfortable home for years. When I met Pete, albeit many years ago now, he had not been in a home — his own or anyone else’s — for [...]

I cook scrambled eggs a lot better than I did when I was around nine or ten years of age, but I still recall quite vividly my first attempt at cooking them. It was both a frightening but gratifying experience. There were no adults in the house to consult with on how to cook [...]

Jean Paul was a short, thin man of around 50. He had a healthy amount of hair when I first met him. Most of the time, Jean Paul also had a beard which made him, I suspect, look much older than he really was. There was little doubt that his lifestyle of living on [...]

In the smaller sized city I reside in, it is not common to see people pan handling or begging on the streets, although we do have homeless people. For the most part, however, they just are not as visible like the homeless are in some communities. Helping others was something I had been missing [...]

In the mid 1980s, my husband and I bought a home that we liked better than the other homes we had owned. This home was situated on a hill in a residential area which gave us a fairly nice view of the city lights in the evening. The home was also on a quiet street, [...]

Just a few days ago, I had the privilege and blessing of meeting a homeless man named Lance. If it was not for my son noticing a dark bundle on the grass in front of a motel, I would have missed meeting this unique man. I stopped to talk with Lance, who was wrapped [...]