Dear Friday, I’m so thankful you’re here! This has been a long week… and this weekend is the only empty weekend I have in April, so I’m excited to have some relaxing before April rears its ugly head at me and zooms by in a flash because of all the events and work I have to do!  Dear Self, Happy Early Birthday!  Dear bloggy friends, thanks for being awesome possoms like always! Dear the dreamer in me, don’t let people put you down for your dreams, embrace them, and face them head on!  You can do anything you set your mind to!  Dear Greys Anatomy, wholly gauc I’m going to have a heart attack before I can make it to the next episode!  Don’t want to give anything away in case you haven’t seen it… but my oh my!  Dear Apartment, you’re getting a good clean this weekend while my sisters are out of town!  It won’t be long before they come back and mess it up again though! *sigh* Dear H2O, I’ve been good about drinking you more frequently during work and I’m starting to feel it! What a refreshing feeling!  Dear running, you’re slowly, but surely creeping your way back into my life and I’m thankful for that! I want to live a long, healthy life and I need to focus a lot more attention on an active lifestyle and screening the things I decide to put in my body!  Dear future 24 year old me, don’t let another year go by without making the most of it! Make the year 24 the best year possible, enjoy the little things in life, spend quality time with the people you love even if it cost an extra buck or takes an extra hour of your time, set out and do what you truly want to do with your life and don’t let anyone or anything hold you back from doing it!

 

Happy Friday my sweet friends! Look for a mini giveaway coming up soon once I reach 200 followers, it’s just a little happy to say thank you for being AWESOME SAUCE and to celebrate my birthday!  How funny is it that it’s only acceptable in the blogging world to give someone else a gift for YOUR birthday!  We’re all a little coo-coo crazy, I know!

Please refer to my very artistic drawing of my office parking lot!

There are times when I choose to “cheat” the system.  I’ll park in resident parking and won’t get a ticket.  On this particular day, I was driving through resident parking and I saw a spot, an open spot, and a relatively close open spot (but it was resident).  I also saw another girl driving her car around who was in fact a resident of South Hall and was in fact, allowed to park in that spot.  And I knew from driving around a few times, that the pickings were slim in the resident parking this day as well.  So I decided it would only be fair to not steal the spot that I could so easily take and let the resident girl have it, so I did.  I continued on my way, looking for a spot.

I ended up parking in the gravel lot far away (not even on my map y’all!) and it did happen to be resident parking because there literally wasn’t a staff spot available, in addition to that, I had a meeting at 8:30, so I needed to get going!  I knew I’d probably get a ticket where I was at.

Later that day, I was going down the elevator telling some co-workers what I had done.  How I had given that resident girl her spot and I had received a ticket, but it just seemed only right to have given her the spot.  There were 2 resident girls riding down the elevator with us and they were overhearing my story, and as we got off the elevator, one of the girls turned to me and said, “You earned a crown in heaven for that!” and I thanked her and didn’t think anything about it right away, but when it really sank in, I began to seriously treasure the words she spoke to me and I knew they were words from God!

There are things in life that we can choose to do or not do.  For the most part, it’s small things, like letting someone else have a parking spot that I desperately need and we think to ourselves that we’re just being nice and it’s no big deal, but when you think about it, it IS a big deal!  Every small good deed and kindness you show towards another human being earns you another crown in heaven.  How easy it is for us to find ourselves being selfish over the small things, when our reward can be so much more than a closer parking spot, it can be a crown!

I wish I knew who that girl was and where I could find her to tell her how much I appreciated her words.  They just rolled off her tongue, like no big deal!  As if she tells every person who does a nice thing for someone else the same thing all day every day!

I wanted to share this experience with y’all to remind you that the small things you do for people that sometimes you think go unnoticed, will be rewarded with an extra crown in heaven.  I also wanted to remind you that there are times when we are in such a rush that we don’t think about doing small things for others and if we just paused for a hot minute, we could have the opportunity to show love, even when we feel hate, and to show peace, even when our life feels at war, and we could earn an extra crown in heaven instead of a selfish mark on our hearts!

Hope y’all are having a wonderful Wednesday!