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From: Eleonore Beaudoin on 12 Jun 2008 22:44

Today soemthign Grand happened.

Sure, I did more gardening and finally potted all the flowers and plants.

Sure I even discovered something resembling a dendelion mixed with a box
of chives, that has white minute flowers at the end of it.

Sure, I went to hunt for more pots. (Opps: had forgotten the final "s" on
the word "pot" (hello RCMP LOL:)):)).

Sure, I bought a whole bunch of canvas and 21 acrylic paint bottles
including 4 white ones.

Sure, I went to hunt for Belam<s pablum -and sure enough, the three places
I tried were all out:(.


But it was when hunting for Belami<s food that this super nice thing happened.

I went to check for fruits to eat...But I could barely grab four apples,
the orange allergies reacting: must ahve been a cut or crushed orange
somwhere for it to be THAT bad. I was like five rows later and I still was
caughing.

Just thenb my nose was ruinnign so bad I depserately needed a Kleenex. I
was tryign to make it to the Kleenex row, but not familiar with thethat
grocery store, just could not make it on time: i needed a kleenex NOW.

In the aisle where I ended up, there was a lil old lady. I thought "Good!
Lil old ladies usually have kleeexes", scolding the lil not old enough=yet
lady I wa because I was sure I ahd some in my purse but had to relize that
I had put them all in my beach bag the day before and was caught with no
kleenex at all.

I woudl nt make it to the kleenex aisle: I depserately needed a kleenex!!
So I asked the lil lady:
-Ecxcuse me madam....Woud you happen to ahve a kleenex?

Stunned tat someoen adressed her, startled a bit, it seemed, maybe a bit
afraid, she assked "say?" at forst. Then asked me to repeat three times.
She must ahve been hard of hearing...After the fourth time,
I asked in English thinking maybe she just was anglophone. But her facial
expression showed she got that ths was english if she still did not
understand/hear what I said, and I switched o French agan, this time
adding charade gestures to my words, asking again, then putting my hands
on each side of my nose mimmicking blowing my nose.

-Oh. No, I dont,t have any kleenex:9, she said. She seemed a bit annoyed...
-Thank you. Sorry if I startled you...Allergies....
-Oh, wait a minute!! Hold on a sec...

She felt her pocket and said after whats eemed to be weighing the pros and
cons and how it would sound.

-I..I have thone...Here...But I did cut it in half...

She then hands me the half kleenex, cut apparently with scisors to look
like it woul be a full one to any curious eye...

-Oh, thank you!!! I took the half kleenex and wa too happy t blow my sone.

-Don<t we feel bad when we are caught without this way?
-Indeed! Silly me...I went to look for fruits but...I am allergic to
oranges, and well...I had to run for the kleenex aisle, but not knowign
the4 grocxery store, I coudl not find where they hide them!:):) Thank you
so much!:)

She had a nice smile and showed so so so happy she could help someone out!

Later, in my car, it dawned on me whatSHEhad said : I cut it in half....It
is only a half kleenex...." had she said a bit shy or embarrassed...


I then realized that this was a lil old lay that was so poor that she
would cut her kle4enexes in half, to then make them last as long as she
could. Ad then I talked to God:
-Boss? Bless his woman. Here is a lil old lady who has it so ard that she
cuts her kleenexes in half, to try and make them last longer. I would bet
that she was given a kleenex or took one from a box at someone,s place,
and cut it in half to make two....nd yet, when I needed to blow my nose,
she offered me the only half kleenex she had, probably like a treasure to
her to try and look normal in public....Bless, bless, bless that lil old
lady: let her in Heaven satright, no qestions asked!! Come to think of it,
she probably would make it straight to heaven anyway, silly me!! But just the
same...When she gets there, f she does before me, then plase? Let her know
what good she did to my soul, so much more than to my nose and how badly I
needed to see a decent nice human being caring for their neighbor. Like
the widow n the New Testament that only gave a pice of change when she
gave to the synagogue, she gave all that she had....d she smiled and was
so happy to be able to be of help, to feel useful, and help out a neighbor....

And then I thought of tellign yous of that, thinking it maybe coud warm
the ehart of soemone else....And that it woudl just be a way to giove back
what she gave to me in that small way....


I now would add this: God? Don.t wait for her o die and go to
heaven...Bless that woman now, see that she has all she needs, and even
extra so that she can always feel appreciated, good and caring, helpful to
her neighbor....

Given the poeple I work with, it was so so soul refreshing to run into
someoen like that.....I turned aroudn to look at her after she went on her
way in the aisle....Se was still smiling, all happy to have helped and
that her help was accepted and not looked down on....

I wish I had not been caughing and blowing my nose still, so that I could
remember her face better. Give me to mee her agan, and hopefully to retrun
somehow 100 times what se did for me....

Bless this woman's sleep and give her the nicest dreams....I wish I knew
her name: if I ever woudl invent a flower, it woudl bare her name.......
I sometimes asked You for justice in my life, when someone did such wrong
so willfully and did dammage to their neighbor n purpose and rejoyce about
it...But this time, for a change, I ask You to give justice to someone fo
the good they did. Grant her prayers. Make her heart light and her years
many and happy, worry free. Amen!!


-C
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