Positive Reinforcement!

What a day today was! The day started off meeting someone for breakfast which was alot of fun, but it felt so good not having to go to go to work today! I have already blogged today but I just got back from shopping! Not just shopping for myself, but shopping for someone who is in need of some positive reinforcement! Crossroads has adopted a senior and give them a gift this year but its more than that! Its making a positive out of what could be a negative situation! I had my trustee sidekick with me ( aka Josh ) and he brought alot of positive reinforcement! He was a very active part in making someone's christmas a great experience!

Yeah I know I have blogged about Christmas already and not yet about Thanksgiving but to see a little kids heart wrap around an idea that someone was going to have a good Christmas is what it is all about! When I presented Josh with the idea of helping me shop for this person his face lit up! You could see the power of joy on his face as he thought about someone getting a gift! I will say more about this later but the power of thought giving and allowing those thoughts to carry over into shopping for someone you dont even know and want to do something for them is a powerful thing!

In this season of giving, give thanks, give thoughts, give time, give love, give kindness, give cards, and give out of genuine spirit! For in doing so you show the very essence of why we celebrate Christmas! For God so loved the world that He gave His only son, before we could think of God, He thought of us and gave us what we couldnt give back! When we imitate that, we imitate the very actions of God!