A RIPPLE IN THE WATER

A RIPPLE IN THE WATER

As most of you already know, my son is in Greenland teaching English to the children there. We have arranged to have me send him food packages as well as teaching supplies. The teaching supplies come from the Dollar Stores as does some of the food. (Thank Heaven for those good old dollar stores!).

I mailed him 1 food package and 2 teaching packages about 1 month ago. They all arrived safely. He used some of the toys I sent in the teaching boxes to help celebrate another teacher's little child's birthday party. That was great.

But what surprised me was a couple of the items in the teaching boxes that went to even a further use. 4 of the items I sent in one of those boxes were washclothes that could be used as hand puppets. There were nothing unique here, but apparently they were very unique there. My son has a friend who runs a television station in Nuuk (capitol of Greenland). This friend produces a children's show. My son felt that those washclothes/puppets would be better used if he sent them to his friend.

I just received an email from my son. He told me that those silly little dollar washclothes/puppets are being used on the children's show which is being shown nationality in Greenland. Gosh, who would have thought that those washclothes/puppets would be so valued there? They were no more than silly trinkets.

But the best part is that those silly little trinkets caused a ripple effect in a remote country. I purchased them thinking my son would use them with the younger classes.................he figured that they might do more good in the hands of someone else.........who in turn is now sharing them with an vast outreach of children. There must be hundreds and hundreds of children now enjoying those silly washclothes/puppets.

We never realize and may never know what ripple effects we cause by our actions. One person reaches out to touch one person and that person reaches out to touch 2 people and those people reach out to touch 2 more people and so it goes. So the next time you go to do some little thing for someone else, remember you may never know what that one act of kindness...that one gesture may lead to and how it may change lives of others. So I guess the point is, no act of kindness is just a small thing.....it is meant to grow.

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