Retreat to Go Forward
Today, hopefully, maybe, I made a difference in someone's life.
God, what a feeling. Waking up at 5:30 AM (that's about an hour and a half of lost sleep, y'all), driving down to the local Boys & Girls club to set up, and then...
...and then yelling and screaming and waving my arms with a big group of fellow gold-clad leaders, I tear bleary-eyed and frightened-looking freshmen from their cars (making sure, of course, they kiss Mommy goodbye) and usher them into an all-day retreat with a BANG.
Y'know, they say you get out of retreats what you put into them, and I firmly believe that. So I acted crazy (read: like an idiot) and put everything of myself into making the freshmen, our newbies, feel like part of the family. And d'you know what? I got something out of it, too. I'm now a big sister to one hundred and fifty-something kids.
I learned something today. You know that feeling that you get when something someone does just cheers you up and makes your day? It feels even better when you're the person doing the making, and you can see someone's face just light up and a sparkle come into their eyes that wasn't there before.
Did you know that you, right now, wherever you are, whoever you're with, have the power to make someone's day? You have the power to take something awful and, without much effort, turn it into something amazing. You have the power to make someone happy. And that, my good people, is something special.
Use it for good and not evil. ;-)
God, what a feeling. Waking up at 5:30 AM (that's about an hour and a half of lost sleep, y'all), driving down to the local Boys & Girls club to set up, and then...
...and then yelling and screaming and waving my arms with a big group of fellow gold-clad leaders, I tear bleary-eyed and frightened-looking freshmen from their cars (making sure, of course, they kiss Mommy goodbye) and usher them into an all-day retreat with a BANG.
Y'know, they say you get out of retreats what you put into them, and I firmly believe that. So I acted crazy (read: like an idiot) and put everything of myself into making the freshmen, our newbies, feel like part of the family. And d'you know what? I got something out of it, too. I'm now a big sister to one hundred and fifty-something kids.
I learned something today. You know that feeling that you get when something someone does just cheers you up and makes your day? It feels even better when you're the person doing the making, and you can see someone's face just light up and a sparkle come into their eyes that wasn't there before.
Did you know that you, right now, wherever you are, whoever you're with, have the power to make someone's day? You have the power to take something awful and, without much effort, turn it into something amazing. You have the power to make someone happy. And that, my good people, is something special.
Use it for good and not evil. ;-)