This week, I have had this quote on my mind a lot. "You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you." I decided to start praying each morning for an opportunity to live this out each day.
It seems like many people complain about being surrounded by negativity - myself included - but don't really want to do much about it. I decided that this would be a way to be proactive about putting positive into the world. When I look at the days I have been the most positive and feel happiest I notice one common thread - they were the days I actively looked for ways to bless others. Not just anyone, but specifically those who might be unexpected. Not (necessarily) friends but strangers in stores or sometimes... people I don't even like.
The days that I do something for someone knowing that in no way will it be reciprocated something amazing has been happening, I become a happier and more positive person. When I am a happier person... people around me are happier... and negativity begins to fade away. There have been many challenging times over the last 7 years at CASA - where I have been faced with the most discusting of all evils - times where it has been easy to believe that there is no more good left in the world. In some small way, I believe we can put good back into the world with one small act at a time. The evil in the world can be overwhelming where sweetness and innocence is so violently ripped from our most vulnerable, but we have to walk up each day remembering that there is also kindness and goodness in the world. I have become so tired of a world and life in search of "getting ahead." This atti tude of "look out for yourself - no one else will!" I just don't believe it. And hope I never will. I choose to believe that if you put good into the world, good will come back to you. Maybe it won't come back to you in the way you might hope, but I promise, good will come back to you.
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