Pay It Forward

My world is filled with teachers and they are amazingly good ones, teaching by living rather than lectures.

I know a woman who has an extended family in a very difficult transition period right now involving both her parents and children, and grandchildren. She gives of herself constantly, in every way possible. She has a comfortable life, but certainly is not rich by anyone’s monetary standards and her health is iffy. I don’t believe I could do a quarter of the work and caring she takes on for the good of everyone around her and I mean even the strangers she sometimes meets in stores or on the streets. Her faith sustains her with Biblical proportions, yet she is not judgmental. She simply goes about life giving and giving and giving. Never enabling. Never controlling. Simply trying to do the right things at the right times.

She recently blessed me in a most concrete and fundamental way and when I offered to repay her, she said simply, Just do like we do with the shopping carts at Aldi's - hand off to the next person and tell them to pay it forward sometime.

Imagine a world filled with people like her.