This morning as I was driving into work, I became a little frustrated as this elderly man pulled in front of me driving at a leisurely pace. I couldn’t go around him, because I needed to turn soon from my current lane. Exhaling a big sigh, I resolved to just be content at this slower pace, and then we stopped at a traffic light. As I stared at the truck in front of me, I noticed the cute, white-haired man in front of me, and then I saw the bundle of flowers next to him on the seat.
It’s Valentine’s Day, I thought to myself. I wondered who those flowers were for and where he might be going to give them to her. I pulled myself out of my own self-important task of hurriedly getting to work, and I wondered what his story was. My thoughts wandered….Was he taking those flowers home to his dear, sweet, elderly white-haired wife? Perhaps, he was instead taking them to her in a nursing home. Oh dear, what if she has Alzheimer’s and doesn’t even know him? Or what if he is visiting her on this special day in the cemetery?
It cheered my heart to see his love for whomever these flowers were for, and it reminded me that in the hustle and bustle going around about us all day long, the most important thing we can do is love others. He reminded me to slow down, take a deep breath, and tell the ones who are important to me that I love them.
Share your love.❤️
“Finally, all of you, be like-minded, be sympathetic, love one another, be compassionate and humble.”
I Peter 3:8
