Selflessness

I need to tell you about what my daughter last night.  It moved me so much!  More than anything has in awhile.  Mainly because it was all of her doing!

As I teach my children, I hope that I am raising them right.  To be kind loving individuals that are a blessing to those around them and not a drain.  I want them to be selfless rather than selfish, but it is hard to teach a child that because the world is so all about how much you can get for you!

Last night was my son's 10th birthday party for family.  It is a tradition that we go to this pizza place with a game room and eat pizza and play games.  It's nice and clean, the pizza is good and every birthday is just a really nice time.

My daughter had been talking about wanting to get her brother something for his birthday and with his real party not until Sunday I had promised to take her on Saturday.  She had already gotten a five dollar bill out of her piggy bank and wrapped it up for him but that just wasn't enough for her.

Typically when we go to this arcade my daughter doesn't win many tickets and she only gets some candy or something small, but this time she was on a roll!  She had won 1,000 tickets from one game and just kept racking them up.  She kept asking if she had to share.  I had told her no because this was rare for her and I wanted her to enjoy it.  All told she ended up with 1,500.  She wanted to go cash them in alone.

She walked over and the man told her she had 1,500 tickets.  She asked him how much this basketball was.  Now maybe I should stop here.  Basketball is my son's thing.  Not so much my daughters.  So, when she told the man that was what she wanted it threw me.  I said but honey you won't have any left to get what you want.  She said I know.  She took the basketball from the man and handed it to her brother.  Oh my sweet precious angel.

The world could take a lesson from my little girl.  Everyone is so worried about getting their fair share and  making sure that no one is getting more than they are that we forget about being selfless.  It is rewarding to put others before yourself.

My mother always says that the easiest way to cheer yourself up is to do something nice for someone else.  She's right you know!  Try it.  Stop for just one moment putting yourself at the center of attention and look around you for someone who might be hurting worse.  Someone who could use a hand or a pat on the back.  It will make you feel better to be kind and that kindness will only spread, and that kindness will bless you more than any material thing you will ever own.

Have a fantabulous day my friends!  Be a blessing!