“Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” Matthew 12:34
Last week, I saw an elderly couple at the grocery store. He was in a wheelchair, and she was bent. As she pushed him along, she talked with him and smiled at him. Sometimes she rested one hand on his shoulder. The store was summer-busy, and the checkout lines were long. The elderly couple ended up behind me in line. When my turn finally came and I was unloading my cart, I realized that I had forgotten to get bread. I turned to the woman and asked, “Do you mind if I run to get one more thing?” “Why, sure, darlin’. You run get it.” There was nothing remarkable about her words except that they were like her--alive with kindness. It was as if she had been given that moment for the sole purpose of filling it with kindness. Here I am, a week later, sipping my morning coffee and remembering.
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.Emily Dickinson