Stories of Kindness from Around the World

   On my birthday this year, I decided to do something very different.  I decided to do something for someone.  I have been blessed with so much and I wanted to reach out and be a blessing to someone.  So, that afternoon, I went to my local grocery store, bought a bouquet of flowers and went down the street to the new hospital.  I had no idea who I was going to present the flowers to, but I would find someone who needed to be cheered up.

   I went up to the 4th floor, asked the nurses at the station, who thought it odd that I didn't have anyone in particular that I was there to see.  Still, they gave me the room number of an elderly lady who they said,  "could use some cheering up."

   I proceeded to the room and when I entered with the bouquet of flowers and told the woman that it was my birthday and I wanted to do something for someone else, she was overwhelmed with emotion.  I could see she was an amputee and she explained that she was very discouraged because they were fitting her with a new prosthetic leg and she knew that she would be in pain as she adjusted to it.

   We shared a little about ourselves.  I asked if I could pray with her and she agreed.  I will always remember how very touched this woman was to receive a bouquet of flowers from a complete stranger.  She called me her angel.  I am far from an angel, but I felt after I left, that if I didn't do anything else that day, that was the highlight. 

   I have shared that story with my neighbor and she says that she is going to do the same thing for her birthday.  I hope that she does and will motivate others to just be kind and cheer someone up in the hospital.  You never know, you might be considered someone else's angel for a day!