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Making A Difference
I also remembered a trip to their home in Montana when I was a teenager. We attended the State Fair and went fishing in peaceful mountain streams. I thought of all the ways my aunt had been kind to me and decided to share my memories in a letter. By Louise Tucker Jones A few weeks later, I received a note from my uncle telling me how much my letter meant to him. He counted it As a writer, I love seeing my words in a tribute to my aunt. It was then that I books or magazines, but some of my best realized not all the words God gifted me writing has never been published. You with were meant for the public. Some see, what I consider my greatest work is are meant to comfort those in grief often meant for only one person. or to help someone going through a Several years ago, I got word that my tough time. Others may congratulate or aunt in Montana died. Unable to attend celebrate an event. Even when sending a the memorial service, I planned to send card, I share a short, personal message. a card. But just as I sat down to sign it, I realize not everyone is called to memories of my aunt, uncle and cousins be a writer or speaker, but we can all flashed through my mind. Summers when encourage the people that God puts I was young and their family visited us in in our paths, whether it’s across the Oklahoma. Dozens of relatives gathered fence or across country. When someone at our house for homemade ice cream, special comes to mind, contact them. “catch-up” conversation and lots of hugs. Tell them how they have inspired you.
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You may not receive a return letter as I did, letting you know you touched their life, but that’s okay. Don’t do it for the reward. Do it for the joy. You never know what a difference your words or actions can make in someone’s life. It just might help get them through one more day. And that, my friends, is what matters.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Louise Tucker Jones is an award-winning author, inspirational speaker & founder of Wives With Heavenly Husbands, a support group for widows. LouiseTJ@cox.net or LouiseTuckerJones.com.
