Just One Thing
My friend Anna is a Rare Rock. She teaches the 3 and 4 year-old’s Sunday School class and when Jesse (now 9) was 3 she offered to pick him up and take him. Wrestling two babies and a preschooler alone, since Dan’s “paying gig” is every Sunday morning, I was never making it to Sunday School.
In turn, each of my three big kids has learned to wait at the door on Sunday mornings and watch for Anna’s white car to pick them up. It is a special treat for them and a wonderful help to me. Now Macy just turned 3 and earned a spot in Anna’s car. She wasn’t even born when Anna started this tradition. Rain or shine, late nights or holidays, Anna is there.
It’s just one thing (among the many) that Anna does to help others, but it makes a big difference in the little lives in my house. From Anna they are learning consistency, faithfulness, and devotion. Sometimes it doesn’t take a life-altering decision to be a Rare Rock, it just takes one thing. “The next right thing” is what Dallas Willard calls it.
Happy Weekend, Rare Rocks!
Aww. That’s so nice of her.
Rare rock indeed!
What a treasure Anna is to all who know her! And what a great lesson in faithfulness for all of us. . . . just one thing! I love that!
Thanks Anna, for being such a great role model! And thanks for sharing this Felicity!
Loved this one Felic, Anna is a true friend and it’s lovely to be reminded that there are people in this world that can be one. Just one thing indeed.
Ditto, ditto, ditto. Thanks, Anna, for pouring your life into generations.
Thanks Felic. I am more than repaid though in hugs from little arms, prayers reminding me about childlike faith, and a stock of entertaining stories about family life only 3- and 4-year olds could tell.