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What positive connections am I creating with the people around met?
That's what I said I'd write about next and so I will do that. I don't want to though because it makes me feel inadequate and selfish and it's infinitely harder to identify the ways I'm positively influencing people than the to identify the ways they're blessing me.
I have no doubt that God is using me to lift someone else. That said, I have very little idea what those ways are.
The words "give someone a hand and you both climb higher" do rest on one hallway wall of my school, reminding us all to do the second mile, kindness thing. And although I fight sappy cliches, this one is true. When I keep my voice level and spend 5 minutes repeating what I've just said until S finally catches on, she's happy because,
#1. She didn't get yelled at so she feels confident, not stupid.  
#2. She finally understands how to multiply fractions.
I'm happy too because,
#1. I kept calm and patient so I feel confident and good about myself.
 #2. S finally understands how to multiply fractions.
I gave  her a hand and we both climbed higher up the ladder of knowledge, each in a different way.

Another blessing thing I did was to step out of my comfort zone and into the back bench at church yesterday and begin a conversation with a friendless young mother and her two gorgeous TinyGirls. Was she blessed? I don't know. I do know that I was blessed by the happy feeling that reaching out gives me and, really, I think she was blessed too.
Being a blessing involved washing the supper dishes for the Lady on the Mainfloor. It constituted taking C home after the party last night. Being a blessing was sending a random fun text to a friend and also buying 9 rolls of brown paper so T+T+B+B had one less thing on their lengthy grocery list. Being a blessing the rest of my the week will mean giving 2 of my after-schools and evenings  to cooking and serving at a fundraiser.

I feel like throwing this post into the  proverbia garbage can because I'm not good at writing on demand and so this sounds stilted and awkward and fake. I'm also not good at bragging sometimes. But which is more important -not posting something if it's abnormal for/unlike me or trying to grow my words and feelings by writing something Out of character once in a while?

A Reflexion of Thanksgiving

The sermon in my Home Church Sunday morning, referred to as a Reflection of Thanksgiving and focused on Being a Blessing made me analyze the positive connections with people around me.

•My dad, my precious unselfish Dad who got up early, got my car an oil change and winter tires AND a tank full of gas. I don't think there is anything I can ever do to pay my dad back for all the things he does for me. ❤️
•a wide awake new friend lets a few kids to crash his house at midnight for espressos and pizza and laughter and conversation
•The modern SteinbachBoy who went to sport check at the same time as me and kept doing blessing things like holding the door and letting me go ahead in checkout.
• people who don't don't even know me well show so much interest in my life just because they are kind and interested and looking out for me.
•That 2 coteachers didn't make a big deal of my groggy copier error this morning.
•Two kind people who both brought after-school-edibles this afternoon
•People who accept and work with the way I do things even if it's not the way they'd things.
•Margareta who blessed me with the gifts of companionship while driving and patience when I decided to stay in Steinbach until evening and entertaining me through the boring hours of dark highways.
•friendships and kindness from so many people in my S-Home and my new N-Home

Next up:  What positive connections am I creating with the people around me?

Blessed and Thankful -The Sunset Watcher 🌅


((I know. Lists are cheating as blog posts. They're boring; they're an easy way out. Maybe sometime I will be so unlazy and unbusy that I will stop writing lists. All I am now is sorry -sorry for lazyness and busyness and failure on my part. And just a bit of advice -Learn from my mistakes. -The Sunset Watcher 🌅))

Another postscript -I am posting belatedly because the network isn't so lovely here lately. -SW

A Reflexion of Thanksgiving

The sermon in my Home Church Sunday morning, referred to as a Reflection of Thanksgiving and focused on Being a Blessing made me analyze the positive connections with people around me.

•My dad, my precious unselfish Dad who got up early, got my car an oil change and winter tires AND a tank full of gas. I don't think there is anything I can ever do to pay my dad back for all the things he does for me. ❤️
•a wide awake new friend lets a few kids to crash his house at midnight for espressos and pizza and laughter and conversation
•The modern SteinbachBoy who went to sport check at the same time as me and kept doing blessing things like holding the door and letting me go ahead in checkout.
• people who don't don't even know me well show so much interest in my life just because they are kind and interested and looking out for me.
•That 2 coteachers didn't make a big deal of my groggy copier error this morning.
•Two kind people who both brought after-school-edibles this afternoon
•People who accept and work with the way I do things even if it's not the way they'd things.
•Margareta who blessed me with the gifts of companionship while driving and patience when I decided to stay in Steinbach until evening and entertaining me through the boring hours of dark highways.
•friendships and kindness from so many people in my S-Home and my new N-Home

Next up:  What positive connections am I creating with the people around me?

Blessed and Thankful -The Sunset Watcher 🌅


((I know. Lists are cheating as blog posts. They're boring; they're an easy way out. Maybe sometime I will be so unlazy and unbusy that I will stop writing lists. All I am now is sorry -sorry for lazyness and busyness and failure on my part. And just a bit of advice -Learn from my mistakes. -The Sunset Watcher 🌅))

Another postscript -I am posting belatedly because the network isn't so lovely here lately. -SW