Saturday Meeting
count me in i will help also i would love to meet you ,and i am sure we all have a lot of clothes to help you out with ,since you are losing so fast ,things will work out just believe .i need to find someone to bring with me , my dh husband has to go to work early sunday moring,i may bring my little boy he is such a doll, and he is good copmany for the 2 and half hour drive ,if anyone needs a ride from the north carolina end please email me and i will help ya out hope to see all you guys saturday
hugs peggy
Dear Amy,
I am not just saying this, this is the reality of things, so please don't think this is just an effort to "be nice" on my part. I generally do one nice thing a year, so "up and pay attention".
God often gives us opportunities to give. We give our experience, we give our clothes we've outgrown or our children's "gently used" toys, sometimes we give a phone call or a listening ear, or a shoulder to cry on.....but....and this is important.....the "givers" learn much, much, more than the takers. I have learned more from the people I have given to, about generousity and strength and courage.......I have learned how to listen and how to pray......
But I never would have had an opportunity to learn those things if there hadn't been someone on the other side willing to take from me as well.....
Amy, you have given a lot of yourself, to the public, to this Board, to many folks and you have been an inspiration. But sometimes you have to give others a chance to learn by giving as well......
And how are others going to have the opportunity to learn how to be generous, how to listen, how to love, if you won't be on the accepting end every once in a while????
Sometimes the hardest lesson to teach is the one where we "be still and know that He is God" and let others learn the truth and the love and the good feelings that come with giving to us.....
Please continue to be an inspiration, Amy. Please don't let these folks' generous feelings and genuine sparks of love for you die simply because you won't allow yourself to receive every once in a while.
You have inspired kindness, generousity, and goodness in these folks who want to pay for you to come out and enjoy yourself....
Be that inspiration!
And show the meaning of true "grace" is to accept a gift every once in a while, the meaning of "humility" is to accept help when you reach for it....
And let the GA Board learn the meaning of love is helping out a friend, every once in a while, so she can have some fun on her birthday.....
After all, you are still giving the greatest gift, yourself as a guest there. Everyone wants to meet you. Don't disappointment them over the little matter of the check. You are worth millions. You really are....in more ways than you know.....your presence is the "cake", the gift of the money is just "the frosting"!
Now, GO!
AND HAVE FUN!
Dondi