flowers

you know that look on someone's face? the one that makes you feel like you just changed their life even though you feel like you didn't do much?

i got that look today. it's my fellow employee's birthday tomorrow, so i decided to buy her flowers and make her a card. it was actually kind of hard to get over the fact that these flowers would take over half of what i had in my wallet. going to the store to buy flowers makes me thankful for the BF.

after i circled harris teeter's floral section a couple of times, gawking at the prices - i thought, 'wow. this is ridiculous. i don't know if i should...' then i realized that i was being a jerk. i can't believe i actually thought about scratching the whole idea because it was going to get me out of my comfort zone, or rather my little cashflow out of my so-called smokers pouch.

so - i spend some money, a small amount when you really think about it, and buy these pretty neato purple flowers. i handed them to clara, accompanied by a card, and all of the sudden the language barrier between us seemed like it disappeared.

she didn't have to understand anything. she gave me a huge hug, and through tears, she kept trying to say the words, "very pretty."

i think it's really encouraging and awesome that you don't have to be a linguist to comprehend kindness and love.

and if you don't have to understand or speak all languages in order to understand love and kindness, you don't have to speak all languages to comprehend Jesus.

i think that here, in america, the foreign language speaking population remain uninformed of the love of their savior, because we have seen language as an unconquerable barrier.

i'm pretty ashamed to say that it's stopped me before. i've let situations slip out of my hands because it would be too 'difficult' to explain Jesus.

Jesus isn't too difficult to explain. his beauty is in his simplicity. he is for everyone. he proved that by associating himself with the foreign, the poor, the children, the fatherless.

i just need to learn how to share that man.