Have you ever had a day that just didn’t seem to go the way you had envisioned it would go? Did you have a hard time accepting the changes to your day…. maybe it took you a little while to get your “tude” right?
Sure you have… I know I certainly have and yesterday was a day like that where I had plans and those plans fell through. Sometimes when this happens, I have a difficult time transitioning from the planned activities to the changed activities. Let me explain.
My husband, Craig, and I had talked the night before, and were both thinking how nice it would be to get away for the day. He asked me to start considering where we would go and what we would do. So I did. I planned for us to go out of state to have lunch and then go to a mueseum I thought we would both enjoy. However, the following day, he began talking about shopping for things that were needed for the house and different projects we could work on. The last thing I wanted to hear was projects we could work on….
I knew at that point, regardless of how much I still wanted to get out of the area for the day, that was not to be. We started out on our shopping adventure. We went to lunch, then two stores later, he realized he didn’t have the information he needed with him to make some of the purchases. This meant going home to retrieve the measurements before we could finish at this store and go to the store I was interested in. Boy, this was the second time in the same day that my plans were changing on me….
Finally, I suggested we go back home so he could get the information we needed. He quickly took the option and off toward home we did go. We got home and he quickly began gathering the information we needed. I, on the other hand, took the time to sit and pine after my wonderful planned day gone awry. He completed what he needed to do and saw me sitting on the sofa and asked if I would rather stay home. I guess my disappointment showed through…
Even though going with him on this shopping trip again was the last thing I wanted to do…. I decided to go with him anyway. We went back to the second store and found that due to the measurements we now had, the things he thought we had found… were no longer an option. By this time I wasn’t so sure I wanted to go to the third store … the store I had originally wanted to go to. I was just so disappointed in how my day had gone I would have been just as happy to give up and call it a day….
He decided to drive to the next store. On our way there, Craig apologized for messing up my day all the way around. Wow! He had noticed that the day had not gone as I planned and I was disappointed. He wanted to make it up to me so he drove to the 3rd store even though I wasn’t so sure we should go. I knew that in this moment I was truly being blessed. He was trying to honor me.
When we arrived at the 3rd store… he asked what I was looking for. I told him and we began to search. We had a great time together, and all it took was one small act of kindness to help change my attitude and to show me how selfish I had been acting.
What act of kindness can you do to change somebody else’s day just as my husband had helped to change mine?
Tab Scheffler 