Kind

When we teach our children the way to behave with other people, one of the first things we teach is to be kind.
We don't want them to snatch things from other children because it is not the kind thing to do. We should let them have the first turn at the swings, ask if they want the toy we were going to pick out, and let them choose which dessert to take.


When we have a party we especially want our children to be kind to the others who were invited.


If we get a puppy for them we tell them to be kind and gentle with the baby dog.


There is also something else we say, " Don't be that KIND of person". Usually, we mean don't be thoughtless or rude.


We love it when people are kind by surprise.


Thank you for being kind and stopping by.


Have a great kind of day.

Just

It is "just" a name.


It is 'just' the paperboy.


I am 'just' a stay at home mom.


It is just that he was acquitted.


Just is such a simple word. It conveys not worth much, or not valuable.
Most of us tend toward the not worth much definition. When we say it is just the paper boy, what we really mean, is it wasn't whom we were expecting.


When we use it as just a wife or stay at home mom, it probably means not worth much.


All of the above mean a lot and that is why people say not to say, 'just a mom


It can also mean the way it should be as in it was a just verdict. We also say he got his just desserts.
That means he got what he deserved either good or evil.


When I hear he got his just desserts, I wonder if it was chocolate or ice cream.

Impossible

When I was thinking of what to post for I day, I came up with several and have landed on impossible.
So much seems impossible when we contemplate it.


It brings to mind the Bible verse; With God all things are possible. That is Luke talking. I don't always listen. I know that, from my Bible reading that all things are possible with God. But, if I am invited to go hiking with a friend, I know that heights are not comfortably possible for me. By that I mean that in my head there is a little person jumping up and down screaming, " Are you nuts? That's a TOWER you talking about hiking to and climbing. Do you know how tall it is? It's TALL."


On the other hand I see Jesus saying, " I am here come to me". If I listen, I know he will take care of me, even if I fall he will catch me.


So, I climb the tower. The view of downtown Branson, is gorgeous and lets you see that we really live on a mountain and the roads go round and round.


Deep water is something I am still trying to trust to swim in. I have managed to trust in a boat, but when deep water calls, I think, where are the stepping stones? Again, Jesus says "Come" and when I don't I hear, " oh ye of little faith". My faith is getting stronger, and I know he won't turn from me, so I will plug on to the impossible, knowing that they are possible in Jesus.


Come on along to the impossible that is possible.


As I re-read this is may appear that it is more about possible than impossible, but it about doing the impossible because of my faith.


So, as I said before, come on along for the trip from impossible to possible.

Hither and Yon

When I was growing up that phrase was used often and sometimes in conjunction with thither.


It meant you were not focused. Another way to say, ' running around like a chicken with it's head cut off'.


When I was growing up I often was not focused and just let life happen as it will. I thought of going to college, but had no real idea what to study for and didn't think to ask anyone.


I thought of being a teacher, but when someone said that was what all women wanted to be, I immediately decided I would not do that.


What I can remember wanting to be all along was a wife and mother. That did not take a lot of thought, no, really it didn't. It was what happened to girls. We became wives and mothers. And were good at it. I never thought any one was bad at it. Even if I knew people who ended marriages. I just thought they needed out of the marriage. I know, sounds silly now, but that was what I thought.


I met my special boy and we married. We moved far from our parents and siblings, a twelve hour drive away. We thought it was fine. Pretty sure parents were not so sure.


It worked for us.


It may have looked as though we were going hither and yon, changing jobs, moving into different houses, into different towns, but there was a plan. God's plan. It worked We have now settled within a few miles from my husband's boyhood home, and we love it.


Hither and yon may not be a bad way to travel through life.

Gift

I tried thinking of all the G words I could.


 I didn't write them, just thought them.


The best of them was Gift.


We all receive gifts every day.

A kiss from a loved one. A note from someone we had not heard from in a while.


A smile from someone you see in the store when your feet hurt and you have to hurry home to make dinner and the sky just let loose with rain.


The best of these is the one least expected.


May you have the best of all gifts today.

Friendship

Friendships come in all shapes, sizes, endurance and depth. You can have a friendship since babyhood and enjoy it everyday of the endurance of it. And you can want it to be different at different times.


We usually find friends at a mutual point. Meaning at something we obviously both enjoy. Sometimes that something is a one time thing for one of you and a long time thing for the other. I have met people at social functions and had great time with them there and exchanged numbers and it has continued into something special.


I have also met people that I thought would be fun to know, but they didn't share that thought.
What makes a friend a friend?
Mutual likes or dislikes. Sympathy for your sorrows, whether major or minor. Involvement in your life.
There are immediate friends . There are works in progress friends. And there are longtime friends.


Immediate friends are those that when you meet you have camaraderie with that rivals friendship from the cradle.


Works in progress friends are the ones you meet and like, but time intervenes and you lose contact, and then there they are again. And this time you work a little harder staying in contact and the relationship deepens a bit into a friendship that is close.


The longtime friends are the ones you usually meet when you are young or you children are young and as parents you have a mutual ground to work from.


And sometimes you make friends and never meet. I have several friends that I have never met in person, but have met online. I have some of those from a group of writers that met through the group 500 Words a Day.


No matter where you meet, it seems the same thing is true of all friendships: they fill a space in your heart and life that needed an oomph and a love.


Here's to all my friends: Thanks for being there.

Election Day

In my area it is Municipal election day this upcoming Tuesday. That means cities elect mayors and school boards are elected.


It is not a very well-known election time, seemingly. Perhaps I should say it is a low key time for voters but for  those involved  it is important. School boards are the people who overlook the education of our children and this is the time we get to have a say in who these people are. We should take advantage of this freedom. It is a freedom that we should participate in and take pride in.
There are places that don't have that option.


This is getting a little heavier than the rest of my A to Z posts, so will lighten it up by saying that the election could be like the small town of Dorset, Minnesota where they elect their mayor every year for Dorset Days by selling votes for a dollar a piece.  Two years they  elected a three years old and boy. I think he is going to try again in August when they hold Dorset Days. Sounds like a real bargain at a dollar a vote. The voter has to pay the buck.


Come to think of it, that may not be a whole different from the real thing.