A few weeks ago, I heard of a local Christian family with six children, and the mother had some kind of medical emergency and was in the hospital. Sadly, a short time later, the mother passed away.
We live in such a small community, and it was inevitable I would know somebody connected to this family. My friend Sarah reached out to me to let me know she is friends with this family and wanted to invite her the woman's children over to decorate Christmas cookies as a way to provide them with some joy at this sad time.
Sarah offered to pay me, but I told her that it was my pleasure to help out by providing cookies and all of the icing at no cost.
I had always considered my cookie decorating business to be my "quiet little ministry." I love blessing people with cookies for whatever reason may be. I've done cookies for birthdays, weddings, baby showers, get well cookies, condolence cookies, etc.
I explained to Scarlett the reason for these particular cookies, and asked her if she wanted to help cut them out and bake them ... And join us in decorating them on Friday. She eagerly agreed, and then asked me how much I was charging Sarah.
I loved telling Scarlett that I wasn't charging Sarah anything because I just wanted to bless this family who lost their mama.
❤️ Kindness matters.
