08/20/2025
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Buckle up. This is a long one.
If you think your smallest words and actions don’t matter, you’re wrong. Point blank. You. Are. Wrong. Let me tell you a story…
I have numerous items that I slip into peoples bags when I feel God tell me to. At the shop you may have been the recipient of a “you are loved” note with a gift card, a little wooden cross, or maybe it was just an extra item or two thrown in for you to enjoy. Putting it in a bag is a lot easier than handing it directly to them because you don’t have to see their reaction when they find it. Point being, when God tells me someone needs a little extra love, I take that seriously and take action. I keep these items at my register just waiting for the right person to bless them with. A few weeks ago at the market an individual came to my booth, and I felt God tell me to slip a cross in their bag. Righteo God. I’m on it! Easy enough, right? Well the moment came for me to bag her items and she said “oh that’s ok, I have my own bag”. That “righteo, God” turned into an “ohhh nooo, God” as I realized the only way I could follow what I knew I had to do was by putting myself out there and handing the cross directly to her. So I sucked it up, told her I felt called to give her something, and handed her the cross. It could’ve gone a multitude of ways - a lot of people do NOT like anything to do with faith (to the point they actually become angry in situations like this), but this individual simply took the cross, told me that wasn’t the “team” she played for, but that she would keep it and use it.
Fast forward to today. That same individual came back, engaged in conversation (I’m AWFUL with faces and names so I actually didn’t recognize her at first), and then pulled that cross out of her pocket. This individual who didn’t share my set of beliefs had held onto that cross (and said she takes it everywhere with her) and it has brought her peace amongst a horrific circumstance she’s currently in. So what does that tell me? It tells me that absolutely no act of love is too small. No kind word is too little to not be spoken. It doesn’t matter if we share the same belief sets or not - we can all love and support each other BECAUSE of how beautifully unique we all are and not inspite of it. Friends, I am BEGGING you to PLEASE be the good. Be the one who tells someone they’re absolutley gorgeous when the thought flies through your brain. Be the one who compliments a stranger in public. Be the one who sees the needs of others AND takes action to help. We can’t do it all alone, but we can all do our small part…..and I’ve seen first hand what that can do to change someone’s life. You could literally be saving someone’s life.
