You Made My Day – January 06, 2002
Sometimes things happen that just make our day. Such was a time when a seven-year-old boy sat down to breakfast with his family. His grandparents had come for a visit. His mother had made his favorite breakfast—biscuits and gravy. As he sat at the table between Grandma and Grandpa, he couldn’t contain his delight. “I love this day,” he exclaimed!
Think back on a time when someone “made” your day, and you’ll discover that, in most cases, it was just a small act of kindness that did the trick. Maybe it was a visit from a close friend or a card in the mail that read, “I’m thinking of you today.” It may have been a hug from a spouse, accompanied by the words: “Thanks for all you do for me. I love you.”
A woman told of the time she made a double batch of her family’s favorite soup and took some to the elderly couple down the street. When the little gray-haired neighbor opened the door, she said: “Oh, thank you. We love homemade soup. You’ve made our day.” The joy was twofold; both the receiver and the giver were blessed. With some small kindness, we can make a great difference in someone’s day—and in our own.
The poet Goethe said “Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”1 What a blessing it is to be a link in that chain—to lift others to say, “You made my day!”
Program #3777
1. See Sir Humphrey Davy, The New Dictionary of Thoughts (USA: Standard Book Company, 1961), 327.