The Beginning

Stories on this blog do not need to be "Monumental." Stories that brighten your day can be as simple as having someone opening the door for you when you were leaving the store with a handful of things and it made you happy to know that there really are good people all around us. Plus you were ecstatic to have the help you desperately needed.

To start us out I do not have a story, but a poem. It helps to remind me of what I should be doing each day, and that focusing on myself doesn't bring me happiness, but focusing on others does. When we are self absorbed we forget about the things that truly matter and the things that really bring us joy. So if you are currently feeling a little blue or down in the dumps my advise is this; test and apply THIS poem in your life, and see if it really does work. If it doesn't work, then try something else that may, but I am 100% sure that if you apply it, and apply it again, it WILL work, and you will find sunshine in your soul.

Have I Done Any Good?

Have I done any good in the world today?
Have I helped anyone in need?
Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad?
If not, I have failed indeed.
Has anyone’s burden been lighter today
Because I was willing to share?
Have the sick and the weary been helped on their way?
When they needed my help was I there?

Then wake up and do something more
Than dream of your mansion above.
Doing good is a pleasure, a joy beyond measure,
A blessing of duty and love.

There are chances for work all around just now,
Opportunities right in our way.
Do not let them pass by,
saying, “Sometime I’ll try,”
But go and do something today.
’Tis noble of man to work and to give;Love’s labor has merit alone.
Only he who does something helps others to live.
To God each good work will be known.
Will L. Thompson, 1847–1909

James 1:22, 27

Sincerely,

Mrs. Fray Fray