In addition to helping people learn how to live their lives led from within, I clean homes. A couple weeks ago my car broke down on the way to a cleaning job – an axel in the transmission had cracked. The bills for towing and repair were more than I could afford. In the end I paid them from my meager retirement savings.
I have cleaned for the couple whose home I was headed for for five years. We rescheduled the cleaning. After cleaning that day, I picked up my cash payment from the kitchen counter as usual. To my great surprise and astonishment, there was an extra bundle of cash along with a note saying it was for the car, and a doit4derekcard. I was both stunned and deeply touched. As I stood there my heart ached for your loss. I once had a 10 year old son who I loved, and love, very much. He’a now 27. He too was passionate about pitching baseball and interested in so many things. He has realized some of his dreams by becoming a photographer and getting to travel around the world.
As I stood there I thought about Derek’s world, about your family and about your lives.
To suddenly be brought into your lives in this way, through a simple act of kindness, was deeply meaningful for me. I became immediately inspired to pass it on, not once but all the time.
Kindness is something that comes easily for me but since that day I’ve ‘done it for Derek’ many, many times, day after day, without a moment’s hesitation. Such a feeling of deep satisfaction and joy. Random is becoming routine. Whenever it looks like something would make a difference for someone, I just do it. I haven’t passed on the actual card yet. I will. At the moment it’s on my desk. I like looking at it, fingering it my hand and thinking of Derek.
Thank you for this beautiful gift you have given us all from having loved Derek so very much and simply wanting to pass it on. I’m sure you know each doit4derek ripples out far and wide. Isn’t love and kindness what it’s all about?
Warmly,
Carol
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