Today, I woke up feeling GREAT! Of course you know there is a story behind this feeling and yes, I will go ahead and tell you. Yesterday was an off day for me. I was off from work and off from working out. I made up my mind to get a LOT done and spend the rest of the evening with my wife just chilling. I got up around 8am and started cleaning out my garage. Once I got one side clean, I pulled out the lawnmower and started cutting the grass. This took about an hour (we have a nice size yard). After I finished cutting the yard, I took all of he trash to the dumpster. I took all of my wife's unneeded shoes and accessories to the dumpster. Once I finished the yard, I cleaned the other side of the garage. Now that the outside of the house was done (I cleaned the inside on Friday) I could breathe. But I didn't stop there. I told my wife to call her mother and tell her that I was coming to clean her car. To help you to understand the significance about this story I have to back track a little.
My wife uses her mothers car to travel to grad school in Montgomery. My car was in the shop for over a week and was down two weeks prior to that. It's only one night a month that she uses her car because she car pools with several other teachers that are in the same program. Then on top of this, while my car was in the shop, her brother went to Florida for spring break and he let her use his car the entire week. That really helped up us out a lot. So I decided to do a little something for them since they were nice to her. I washed her mothers car and her brothers car. I also had his oil changed and filled his gas tank up. I figured that was the least that we could do. I also left him a little cash. He is college and I know that anything you do for a college students helps them out especially giving them cash. I learned this from my dear old uncle. He would always give me cash hear and there just because he figured I could use it.
Most people would say that I didn't have to do what I did. They would also say that filling his gas tank up was good enough (especially with the price of gas!). Well, I was taught to help people out when you have a chance especially if you see that they need it. God has blessed me and my wife so I figured, why not be a blessing to someone else. And while me and my wife were at home after I finished doing my duties, I opened a bottle of wine and told her to have a toast with me. We toast to the good times and the bad times and to just being blessed and that was a GREAT way to end the night.
"Giving may be an act, but it sure does have a GREAT feeling attached to it"-K.J Swint
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