Today I received this in an e-mail from a "child of my soul". It really made my day. It also made me send him a special e-mail to let him know just how proud I was of him for being who he was. Because sometimes it takes courage to be who we are:

A teacher in New York decided to honor each of her high school seniors for the difference they made in her life. Then she presented each of them with a Blue Ribbon imprinted with gold letters, which read, "Who I Am Makes a Difference."^TM

Afterwards the teacher gave each of the students three more ribbons to acknowledge others, to see what impact it would have in their community. They were to follow up on the results, see who honored whom and report back to the class the following week.

One of the students honored a junior executive in a nearby company for helping him with his career planning. The student gave him a blue ribbon and put it on his shirt just over his heart. Then the boy gave him two extra ribbons, explained their class project on acknowledgement and enlisted the executive's help.

Later that day the junior executive went in to his boss and told him that he deeply admired him for being a creative genius. The junior executive asked him if he would accept the gift of the blue ribbon and would he give him permission to put it on him. His surprised boss said, "Well, sure." After placing the ribbon above his boss' heart, he asked him to support the efforts of the class project and pass on the extra ribbon.

That night the grouchy boss went home to his 14-year-old son and sat him down. He said, "The most incredible thing happened to me today. I was in my office and one of the junior executives came in and told me he admired me and gave me this blue ribbon for being a creative genius. Imagine. He thinks I'm a creative genius. Then he put this blue ribbon that says 'Who I Am Makes a Difference'^TM on my jacket above my heart. Next he gave me an extra ribbon and asked me to find somebody else to honor. As I was driving home tonight, I started thinking about whom I would honor with this ribbon and I thought about you, son. I want to honor you."

"My days are really hectic and when I come home I don't pay a lot of attention to you. Sometimes I scream at you for not getting good enough grades in school or for your bedroom being a mess. But somehow tonight, I just wanted to sit here and, well, just let you know that you do make a difference to me. Besides your mother, you are the most important person in my life. You're a great kid and I love you!"

The startled boy started to sob and sob, and he couldn't stop crying. His whole body shook. He walked over to a drawer, pulled out a gun, stared at his father and, through his tears said, "I was planning on committing suicide tomorrow, Dad, because I didn't think you loved me. Now I don't need to."

Copyright © 1988 Helice Bridges

Just stopping in to leave Beltane wishes and Blessing to all.

I have been busy with a new business and plans to move from the great state of PA. So have not had lots of time to enjoy the good company here. Hope to be back in full swing soon.

Blessings  All

Spring is officially here per the calendar. However this is the second morning this week I have gotten up to a nice dusting of snow on everything. So winter may officially be over but it does not want to leave.  No problem,  I was just looking forward to nice warm days and daffodils in the yard. Perhaps next week. 

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I discovered a new online toy that I like, Qassia - Intelligence Engine. It allows you to give small tidbits of information about any subject in return you get unlimited quality backlinks to your business sites. This has occupied a great deal of my time and been very productive. It is rare that I can say that about online maketing for pagan resources and services. I am actually excited about it! Shocking in itself.

I am not as excited about updating my online store but that too must be done. I have not realised before what a time consuming task it is to set up a new shopping cart even when you can cut and paste. I had hoped it would be a quick project, definitely not. So when I need a break I net work and Qassia. I should be writing as well but that requires "focus" for more than 2 minutes at a time which is about the full length of time I have between phone calls most days...I am determined to organize my time enough to get some writing done and to finally finish moving and updating the store.

But for now I am glad it is the weekend I need the break..

Have a great weekend everyone

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