Day 10 -- Bringing apples to a women's homeless shelter

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.....
....For it is in giving that we receive...
---St. Francis of Assissi

One of the readers (maybe I have about 6?) sent this Christian prayer to me, and I like the lofty goals that it espouses. Certainly ones to aim for, even in small daily acts. And that last line - so true, so true. Doing something today as simple as delivering the apples that I picked with my family yesterday felt like I was benefitting. Why? Because I could that the fruit brought smiles to some women's faces at the shelter. I could tell that my daughter and her friend were learning something about giving to others as we delivered them, and I knew we still had way more at home than we needed for a pie or cobbler.