Hi everyone, I am taking a much needed break this week, alone with my hubby. In the meantime, I am rerunning some of mine and your favorite posts. Here is one of my favorites regarding trash…..
It is no secret that I have a love of junk, many of us share this passion! Today, actually, quite early today, I had a new experience with junk love. Today is recycling pick up day for our trash. We have been saving our cans and bottles for some months to take to a recycling center for cash, but on the last trip, the return value had been significantly cut, so we opted to just throw our lot in with the recycle curb side pick up. What to do with the bags and bags of Diet Pepsi cans?
He saw me and said a very brief “good morning”. At first I was startled, then quickly realized his plight. As he moved closer, I asked him if he was looking for cans, he very shyly replied he was and trying to earn extra cash to help feed his family. I told him to wait a minute, I had a lot of cans. When I came out with bag after bag of cans, he was so happy, he almost broke into tears. He thanked me profusely, told me again and again what a blessing this was, and we parted ways. As I went back into my comfortable, centrally heated home, cupboards stocked full of food, I said a prayer of thanks that I was able to not only help someone else, but help myself to remember that abundance is every where. Even in our junk.
Love to you all. -Karen
PS l’un tient des d©chets sont un autre tr©sor d’hommes (one man’s trash is another man’s treasure). How true!
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Now that is a great story! Thanks for sharing it… it reminds us all how lucky we are!
Susan
What a blessing for him—and a bigger blessing for you, to know that you made a difference in someone’s life! I think, too often, we do forget how blessed we are. Karma—-it is so true, what we reap, we sow. You put a star on your side of the ledger today. God’s blessings—-pass it on!
What a great story. Love it.
This was a great way to start my day! God’s timing is amazing isn’t it! Thanks for sharing.
Blessings,
Doreen
That was a great post to start the day!
“The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for.”
Thanks for the GOOD start of the day!
Catherine
ps–have fun slacking off today!
Love it! good for you.
That is a really wonderful story Karen, so glad you shared it again
So glad I hunted you down today and read your re-run post. What an excellent way to start the day. Saying a prayer of thanks for my blessed life. Thanks for sharing this. Hope you are having a wonderful vacation.
It was fate that you met over that trash can! So glad you were able to help him – keep drinking those Diet Pepsi’s!
Kelly