Little Becomes Big

Over and over, I am learning that our caregiving doesn’t have to be polished, perfect and profound.  I believe that God takes each sincere, small, and clumsy gesture of caring and turns it into something big and beautiful.

Jeff Mulder illustrates this “little-to-big caring” in the following story:

Scott, a co-worker, died of a heart attack while riding his bike.  He was only 52 years old and a very fast bicycle rider.  I got the call about his death while driving to dinner.  Here is what my wife and I did:

Drove home.  Changed clothes.  Called other co-workers (took 20minutes).
Filled a cooler with ice, pop, and water.  Drove to Scott's house, put cooler with a note to other visitors to take all they want  (took 20 minutes).
Gave Scott's wife and youngest daughter a hug (took 1 minute).

That was it!

Later at the visitation, I spent over an hour listening to people thank Jeri and me for so wonderfully caring for Scott's family.  Some were people I knew, but most were strange