Dear Reader,
I wrote my own prescription the other day and it did the trick. I felt much better after taking the medicine.
I was feeling down, a real bad case of the blues, and when I took a minute to sit with my feelings, I realized what I needed to do. I needed to bake some chocolate chip cookies and give them away to someone. It's a feeling that overtakes me sometimes. A calling that I can't ignore. It might seem strange to admit to someone that my soul is telling me I need to bake cookies and give them away, but thankfully when I made the announcement to my husband, he simply smiled and together we started to bake. I knew I would be cured soon.
If you've ever wrapped a "just-because" present for someone and as you were tying the bow, you could envision the smile on their face, and the look they would give you as they opened their surprise. Such joy! That's the picture I envision as I'm baking cookies. Allowing myself to do something for somebody else--it heals me. Sometimes the prescription includes my being bold. Because I'm not baking with any particular person in mind, instead my heart is telling me, "It's time to bake Suzanne, you're gonna need those cookies later today."
And by golly, when I saw the trucks out in front of our house, later that day, and workers fixing the road, there he was--the man who needed cookies. Standing right in front of my house, his job all day long was to hold a traffic STOP/SLOW sign. Immediately when I spotted him, no doubt about it, he was the reason I baked earlier in the morning.
So without hesitation, I walked up to the man and told him," I baked this morning and I thought you might like some of my chocolate chip cookies, and here's a bottle of cold water, too. What a job! You have to stand out here all day with the sign. If you need to go to the bathroom at some point, give me a holler. You're welcome to use the bathroom at my house, too, and I'll even hold your sign for you. (He laughed, but it's true, I would have).
I wrote my own prescription the other day--and magically I was cured.
Thanks for reading with me. It's so good to read with friends.
* Congratulations to the winners of A Darker Reality by guest author Anne Perry: Carlene C., Trude V., Jennie R., Sue F., Tammy B.
Suzanne Beecher
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