LITTLE THINGS

It doesn’t take much to make me happy.  A funny joke, a hug from a friend, watching kittens play, simple stuff.  So today when I stopped to grab myself a cup of coffee after having lunch with a friend I was delighted to discover the coffee shop was offering a buy one get one free deal on the very flavor I had ordered. YIPPEE!

Those of you that know me have probably guessed my flavor of choice.

PEPPERMINT MOCHA!!!!!!!!!!!

While I was waiting on my TWO yummy mochas to be made I saw a sweet friend in the adjoining bookstore.  I offered her my FREE mocha but she had already had her limit.  Frankly, I wasn’t sure there was a limit when it came to coffee…..  After we chatted a bit, my coffees were ready and off I went, double handed out the door.  At first I had planned on consuming both of the mochas myself.  Then I saw a college aged young man in the parking lot walking toward his beater of a car, looking a little downcast.  Hmmmmm……..  I walked over and offered him one of my peppermint mochas.  The look on his face was priceless.  Probably much like the look on my face yesterday when the man in the post office offered to help me find a lost check and deposit slip!  He smiled, said yes and thanked me.  As I hopped in my car and left the parking lot I saw him take a deep sip of the mocha and smile.  It made me happy.

It is the little things! 

Today is also NATIONAL PIE DAY!  I’m not normally a lover of pie but I do love and I mean LOVE my mother’s buttermilk pie.  Since I have offered to put up her Christmas tree and stuff on Saturday she is going to make me a pie.  Yum and double yum!  She’ll serenade me with Christmas music on the piano while I put up her tree and then we’ll narf on buttermilk pie. Heaven! 

Again, it is the little things.

Be happy! 

Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Luke 6:38