I’m writing about this not to brag about my gift to another but rather to share something that kind of lit up something in my mind.

Today is the birthday of this one girl at my work.  I don’t work with her and honestly I don’t know her that well.  But we have started to sort of become friends.  Anyway, about once a week or so, we go to lunch together.  A couple weeks ago, she had asked me if I wanted to go to her birthday party which would be tonight.  Honestly, I did not really want to go.  I didn’t want to go for a few reasons.  One being that it was something along the lines of “not my scene” so I know I wouldn’t have been comfortable and I probably would have not been happy.  On rare occasion, I go to these “not my scene” type things for really good friends but to go for people I’m really not that close to, I will pass.  Secondly, I like to keep some type of boundary between hanging out with people at work outside of the office.  Sometimes its just weird.  So because of that, I also did not want to go.  Anyway, I told her I wasn’t going to be able to make it.  But I had planned on just going to lunch with her on Friday and buying her lunch.  Birthday lunch.

Because of her short lunch period, we often have to call in our orders and then pick it up and scarf it down right there.  Normally we just pay separately so today I said, hey I got it, let me treat you for your birthday.  She was SOOO happy!!!  She was so surprised and just so happy like…”why would anyone ever buy me lunch or do something like this?”  So grateful.

Whenever things like this happen, it just kinds of surprises me.  It surprises me that people haven’t experienced something like that.  I don’t know.  It was kind of like what happened with our Faith in Action project about a year and half ago.  These types of happenings kind of just make my mind/heart or whatever it is feel all…touched/triggered (lol I’m bad with words).  It really makes me think that these people really just haven’t had people do something for them before.  Which makes me think that perhaps we, who are able, should do more to kind of show these people some love.  As I mentioned in my Faith in Action post, it’s about sharing God’s love.  To just give this little bit to others so that they can feel that there are different people out there, there are people that are nice, and that care.