Kind Words

I walked into the jam packed grocery store today at 5pm. Grocery carts were speeding around corners like derby cars. Each time-crunched mom jockeying the checkout lines, before their kids could wail any louder in protest for a Snickers and Kit Kat dinner.

As I was leisurely browsing the aisles, kid-free, I needed to reach over another woman's shopping cart to grab what I needed off the shelf. She apologetically tried to move her cart so I wouldn't have to reach, and I simply said "Oh, don't worry about it, you're fine. Really, you're fine!".

She looked at me, and with a big sigh, said "Thank you for saying that. It's the nicest thing I've heard all day".

I couldn't help but feel bad for the poor woman. A random stranger is the one to make her day with a semi-nice comment??

So I smiled, and told her she was beautiful, and that I knew she had many brighter days ahead.

I challenge you to make a comment to someone which ends up being the "nicest thing they hear all day". Words have tremendous lasting power, far more than we often realize.

" Seek your truth, and speak your truth… for there is power in your visions and in your words…"