January-May is not my good time of the year. I usually suffer from varying degrees of low-spirit energy and depression. I used to think it was the standard winter blues, but now I'm pretty sure it's more my seasonal circadian rhythm. And for some reason, March and April are my very worst months.
This year I had a plan of attack: read the scriptures every day, go to the temple at least twice a month, and exercise regularly. And it was working, too! But then I fell off the wagon in March, and so for the past week I've been feeling pretty low. Not as bad as last year, but not such a happy bug either. And even in the midst of friends and family, I've been feeling a little lonely and disconnected.
Yesterday evening I was walking Cowboy around the walking track at the hospital, and we were just coming down the home stretch when a big dark vehicle pulled up and out popped two of our girls from Young Women's (Hailey and Rachel). I was delighted to see them - they're sweethearts! And even more delighted when they ran over to ME (which I didn't expect). They said they had divided into groups and were doing service projects for Young Women's that night. And their little group had a service for ME! They gave me a card, thanking me for the things I did for the sisters in Relief Society and they said their group put balloons in my chainlink fence at home. They even let me hug them! I was deeply touched. Little did those girls know how much I needed that little something-something.
I don't know which guardian angel whispered in the Young Women ears to pick me for a service, but I'm grateful that they did and even more grateful that the girls listened and acted on it. Their small-but-not-so-small act of service lifted that little black cloud right off my shoulders and I felt happy, cared about and renewed. I was going to just do a little clipping together of some pictures to add to this post, but I've been learning Photoshop Elements and I just couldn't help myself ... I ended up doing a full scrapbook page last night. HAH!I was also going to make a list, add some pictures, add some links of things that bring me joy (to fight against the dark side) but maybe I'll do that tomorrow. I want this little experience to stand on its own. Thank you, girls!
4 comments:
I'm so glad that they came to your house. We did a combined YW and YM mutual night and we did a RAK(random acts of Kindness) activity and we all split into groups of 5 or 6 boys and girls and went around doing kind things for people. We got points for doing things and the group with the most points won. We had so much fun and we felt the spirit there at every house we went to . We even placed 7 Book of Mormons. We were going to come to your house but someone already went there and we could not go twice. Each group had a bag of things they could use. In the end it was not the points that mattered it was that we made someones day and brightened and thats all the points we needed was to make someone feel good and in the end we did too. We all won. The youth loved this and I'm glad someone came to your door and made your day. We love you.
That is very cool. Young people can be such a blessing in our lives (and such a curse!). I'm glad that they are doing good by you.
AS a mother of a youth at the activity and a youth who loves you, Judy, I add my little testimony to Julies.. She came home glowing and so happy. Thinking of others lifts the server and the served.
Ok,now, that is awesome!! I'm so glad you got that little pick-you-up just when you needed it most. AND, girlfriend, you made a digital scrapbook page, whoohoooo!!! Love it!! Good for you. I'm so excited that we'll be able to share the fun of digi-scrapping!!! Luv ya!! Deb
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