THANK YOU! GLAD TO BE OF HELP!!

Have you ever said that to someone..???

Have y ou been in the right place at the right time to help someone???

This has happened to me lately that sometimes, it scares me...but I love to be alarmed

this way. Oh, not in the sense that someone needs me. It's just reminded of how much help we could be to each if only we ask. Both times in the last two days, I have called someone to just check on them and ended up doing something for them.....why??? they, my friends needed some help. One, was an elderly lady who detest calling on anyone to help her but she needed a ride to the Beauty Shop. I volunteered to take her. I asked her b 4 we left if she had any other errands ......she meekly said, well I do need a few groceries...she proceeded to give me the grocery list and I promised to do that while she was getting beautified. I had not been gone over 5 min. when she called to say her hair dresser was not in.....had been hospitalized over night with some serious problems. I turned around to go get her... She did get her hair fixed by someone but after going back and waiting on her, I told her we would just together to get groceries. That said and done, we picked up some lunch and drove home.....appreciate, oh, yes she did....but alas, I was the winner....

After leaving her home, I called a high school girlfriend we'll call Mary. Her husband died 9 years ago and she still has her up and down days. Yesterday was one of her down days.

How do I know? She did not tell me over the phone, other than at late afternoon, she was still in her pj's....(you might catch me anyday in mine and in a good mood too) I felt that I needed

to check her on and she was more than receptive. When I got there (15 min drive), she had changed clothes, spruced up the house, she said, and had candles lit. I drove thru a local fast food place after calling her on the way and asked if she had eaten dinner...she said no...Oh, she was so excited to see me and you would have thought I had brought a top sirloin meal with all the trimmings. (A chicken sandwich from Burger King) Nothing special although it was tasty and very hot. But she went on and on about the timing and how down she was....Ladies, I did nothing really and am not looking for acolades....but how often do we get so wrapped up in our selves that we overlook the little things in life that we, the givers, receive so much more from life's experience than those we extend our love to. And shame on me for not doing more for others. Having been in chemo for so long and home bound, I know how it feels to be the recipient. Thank you God, for reopening my eyes. I must get back in the swing of things.

LIFE is what we make it....for OURSELVES and OTHERS.

Be a Winner....Give of yourselves to others.

Have a good Sunday.......

~Annie~