Keep spirit going by paying it forward
The name of her tape series is "It's Time for You!" It was 13 tapes that I couldn't wait to listen to. Each one helped me become who I am today. I listened to them over and over again until her words became my thoughts. I put them away several years ago and forgot about them. Then out of the blue I found them and put them in my tape player and started to listen to them once again. The words I had forgotten came back, and I realized where my thoughts had been kindled from her words.
One of the stories Rita told was about her father. He would always stop to help a stranded motorist. Rita would complain that she was going to be late if he stopped. He would remind her that one day if she had trouble on the road a kind stranger would help her out because he had taken the time to help this person. He would say, "What goes around comes around!"
One story came in the other day, and we sent it out to the world. Many times the only person who knows about the gift is the receiver. The giver rarely tells what they have done. They don't do the act of kindness to be seen of men. They do it because they feel the urge and they have to. I know how that feels. This is how our mentoring got started. It would have been wrong for me not to have done it. The urge is so strong that to ignore it would be like slapping God in the face. But you don't do it out of fear but out of love.
As our homes get in order we find that we are walking in an envelope of peace. This peace follows us and we pass it on to others. Isn't it amazing when we are no longer living in CHAOS that we can see, hear and feel the arms of God guiding us? When CHAOS reigns we are blind to the needs of others. We are surrounded by a fog, and we are always so busy putting out the fires that our blindness has created. Once the fog has lifted and we are able to think, the most wonderful things start to happen.
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