what an amazing post--and the game sounds wonderful! I'd like to try it with other fast food places, heehee!
And yes, I know *exactly* what you mean about the inner critical voice that judges, and gets shut up good by the acts themselves. I'm glad I'm not alone in that experience.
It's a wonderful feeling for such a little cost. And it's that wonderful lesson we're allowed to learn over and over...every time we give we get more in return.
I've thought about doing this sort of thing a couple times, but I never go to fast food/drive-thru type places and can't quite figure out how to make it work for other scenarios.
I don't know...that's a little harder...Starbuck's card on a coworker's desk? Paying for someone at a sit-down restaurant? Though that would be a little more expensive.
Of course, it doesn't have to cost. It can be as simple as letting someone out in traffic when you don't want to. Or letting someone in line ahead of you at the grocery. Whatever feels like giving to you...
very cool! I read a book recently called 29 Gifts and was trying to give someone a gift everyday of some kind (wrote about it on the other public blog). lately I have fallen off of the gift giving, but have still been lucky enough to recognize gifts that come to me.
I think the more people I meet the more I realize that we are all human & children of God. I'm lucky to have met people who show me that.
So, I went to Amazon and looked up 29 Gifts...now I very much want to read it.
I took a seminar with Angeles Arrien and she told us about a similar concept...it's the concept of 27 things...each day for 9 days, throw away, give away or significantly move (not move from one table to another...but move from the living room to the attic or from the attic to the kitchen) 27 things a day. It transforms your life.
I love the concept of 29 Gifts...
I think the more people I meet the more I realize that we are all human & children of God.
This is the most basic principle to remember and one of the easiest to forget. You are very wise.
Hahaha--ME? I don't feel wise. I was sooo judgmental when I was younger. Very much overgeneralizing and stereotyping people. I often wonder what I missed or who I missed getting to know because of it. So I try not to do it now.
I love it when you make posts like this. You always get me thinking. I struggle with this sort of thing too, and this Lenten season I've been trying to learn about humility and pride. I always have had trouble with being a somewhat aggressive driver, and when I see people who are even more aggressive than I am on the highway, I frequently blurt out a sarcastic, "Oh, you're so special!" And the other day I had this epiphany that actually? Those people ARE special. They're special to God, even if they're not special to anyone else. But they're probably special to someone else too. I had to change my thinking.
Everyday is a learning experience, it's just a matter of whether I choose to learn it.
Shifting our perceptions, shifting the way we look at other people and seeing ourselves in them is the greatest gifts we can give ourselves and each other.
Someone once defined humility for me as "the quality of remaining teachable." That has been a recurring epiphany in my life and has blessed me more than I can say.
You ARE special and amazing and wonderful and a blessing in a lot of lives.
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I have never heard of the Chic-Fil-A game but I will have to play it at some point.
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And yes, I know *exactly* what you mean about the inner critical voice that judges, and gets shut up good by the acts themselves. I'm glad I'm not alone in that experience.
Bless you woman, you have MADE my day!
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It's a wonderful feeling for such a little cost. And it's that wonderful lesson we're allowed to learn over and over...every time we give we get more in return.
Love you. *HUGS*
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Of course, it doesn't have to cost. It can be as simple as letting someone out in traffic when you don't want to. Or letting someone in line ahead of you at the grocery. Whatever feels like giving to you...
You are wonderful. I love you. *HUGS*
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I think the more people I meet the more I realize that we are all human & children of God. I'm lucky to have met people who show me that.
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I took a seminar with Angeles Arrien and she told us about a similar concept...it's the concept of 27 things...each day for 9 days, throw away, give away or significantly move (not move from one table to another...but move from the living room to the attic or from the attic to the kitchen) 27 things a day. It transforms your life.
I love the concept of 29 Gifts...
I think the more people I meet the more I realize that we are all human & children of God.
This is the most basic principle to remember and one of the easiest to forget. You are very wise.
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Shifting our perceptions, shifting the way we look at other people and seeing ourselves in them is the greatest gifts we can give ourselves and each other.
Someone once defined humility for me as "the quality of remaining teachable." That has been a recurring epiphany in my life and has blessed me more than I can say.
You ARE special and amazing and wonderful and a blessing in a lot of lives.
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