One Small Thing

It only takes one small thing in a person's life to turn things around. If someone has not been feeling like themselves for years, or have been slightly or severely depressed over a certain issue, the smallest gesture can awaken their spirits once again and they can continue what they love to do, but what they want to do has been put on the back burner because they are so emotionally involved in what ever it is to causing them to feel down. My sister wasn't having the greatest day ever the other day. I actually stayed home that day from school because I didn't get a good night rest and I was tired from the night before. So I thought I would try to pick her spirits up by doing the smallest gesture. While she was laying in bed waiting for work to come to the start of just another day, I was down in the kitchen doing what I do best...cooking. I was going to make her a toasted cheese sandwich, but my toasted cheese sandwiches are usually the best I ever eat...although sometimes I do burn them, and I did this time as well, it's not about the taste. Now this isn't to say I made a horribly tasting sandwich and gave it to my sister. I had American cheese, turkey breast seasoned, with a couple lettuce leafs on mayo, while the bread was cooked over butter to give it more of a punch...sounds great doesn't it? When I was done I put the sandwich on the plate and threw some cheetos on it, and walked up the stairs to my sister's room and gave it to her and talked to her. She was so thankful that my mom went to me and said that she hasn't stopped talking about it and she's been a lot more happier lately...that was a week ago. It's amazing how the smallest act can make us feel better...but what about dieing for someone? Someone taking their life for us? That's a huge thing to do, and isn't a blip on the radar. If someone jumped infront of me to take a bullet and died for it, my whole life would revolve around that love that that person showed for me. I've seen people tell stories of that and live their life around that fact, yet only go to church on Christmas or Easter. So how can someone worship a man who took a bullet for them, but when Jesus died on the cross to save all of us from ourselves...we can't have our daily life revolve around him? This isn't to put the man who jumped infront of a bullet to save his friend down, no that's showing a lot of love for that person...but it's the living their life around that. Naming their kid, telling people all day about that. How about the next time someone says, "What's the greatest thing to ever have happened to you." Instead of saying, Oh my parents' bought me a car, say, "My best friend layed His life down on the cross. Was beaten violenty before that, and was then nailed to that cross. He wore a hat of thorns, which is now his trademark, and yelled out, 'Father forgive them'. That's not only the greatest thing to happen to me, that's the greatest thing to happen to you and everyone else in this room. When you say that, look at the reaction of everyones face...you'll be astonished on what you see.