Monday, October 20, 2014

walk blog 2

A couple of weeks ago I was at the church on a Thursday evening and was waiting for a meeting to start and saw a Darts driver doing her job most efficiently. She had wheeled the client into the fellowship hall and was getting back to the van.
As she walked by me, I told her “Thank you for the work that you are doing. I want you to know that it is appreciated.”
She responded, “Thanks, you need to know that that means an awful lot to me right now.”
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The next day I was trudging down the city streets on my walk.
As I was walking down Acadia a woman, who had just left the house down the street, pulled her car over with her window down and said, “Keep going, you're doing great” and gave me a thumbs up.
As I came up to the house that she had just left another woman was still out on her porch from waving good bye to the woman in the car.
As I passed the house I indicated to the woman standing in front of her house that the other woman had really encouraged me and I appreciated it.
She then said some encouraging words and added, “I am a walker too.”
I replied that I wasn't a walker and this was hard for me.
She said, “Well, keep at it because you look terrific.”

The next morning I woke up a walker

and really grateful to that woman.
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Casual words said to people we don't really know.
Encouraging words.

If only we heard them and spoke them more often.

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