Angels at the Beach
Today I took my two nephews down to the park and beach. We played for awhile and then they decided they wanted to go put their feet in the water despite the 60 degree weather. While I was sitting on the bench watching them, a group of people approached me and asked me if they could give me some words of encouragement. My first thought was that this was going to be parenting advice because I had just finished yelling at the older one for going too far into the water when they approached. My second thought was that I was going to get an earful about God and Jesus Christ. I was hesitant, but I listend to what they had to say. A gentleman, I believe his name was Lawmen, said that they all had just finished a class that taught them to give people "words of encouragement" and they wanted to know if they could use me as their first guinea pig. In spite of what my head was telling me, I thought "what do I have to lose?". Lawmen started and blew me away by his impressions of me and the encouragement that he was able to give me...and it continued. Around 8 people in all gave me words of encouragement about being myself and not taking for granted what I had in front of me and their first impressions of me and my attitude. They were incredibly insightful and thoughtful in their approach...they brought me to tears with their kindness. I can't remember exact words or sentences that anyone of them said to me, I just know that they made me feel like I've never felt in my whole life. As it turns out, they were members of a church, but they didn't preach or tell me what a sinner I was, they made me feel wonderful. It's unbelievable what an impact a perfect stranger can have on you. Since that encounter I haven't been able to stop thinking about what they had to say and not being discouraged about things, that I've got an imporatant place in this world, even if I haven't been able to find it yet. Wow. Those people will never know how much they meant to me today. It goes to show that one person can make a difference. Thank you to whoever it was that sent those people into my life today, because I needed it.

New to this
Granted, when everyone starts one of these things, the first thing they probably say is "I've never done anything like this before".....in my case, it's the truth. The only thing I've ever really done on the internet is look up information or check my email.
I ran across the article on msn.com about the infamous "rance" who was blogging on this site (I bet Lycos is thanking him/her right now for all the free publicity!) and was interested to see what it was he/she was talking about so I checked it out. After reading a few entries in his blog, I was hooked. What a great way to connect with people, and to vent!
I'm currently at work, setting up this account...so it's obvious that I enjoy my job....and trying to decide if I have anything meaningful to say. I've decided that I don't. I did this just for fun!

Later
B

PS...did anyone see that shot by Kobe last night!! I'm not a big NBA fan, but could the man be any luckier!!