what a great story! really love it when you follow God’s voice and things work out like that. thanks for sharing:)

Another story! So I went to the post office to send some packages today and usually there’s a really long line and only two workers. It wasn’t such a long line today, but the workers were stressed and definitely not having the best day.

So I sent my packages and wanted so badly to give this woman who was helping me something. I wanted to give her something! but the situation made me feel really limited.

So after I left I saw a party store down the street I had never seen before. I went inside and there were all these balloons and stuffed animals and all sorts of toys and goodies. “You know who never really gets appreciated? The postal workers,” I thought. I’m going to appreciate them.

So I got two little stuffed animals and tied balloons to them. Perfect.

The post office was soon closing, so I ran back in with these two little stuffed animals and balloons that were super cheap. When I came back inside I yelled,

“Happy Valentines Day!”

I will forever have the look on these two women’s faces to draw infinite happiness from. It was so beautiful.

Something so simple. So rarely thought of. But it made all the difference for me and for them!

“Let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father” (Matthew 5:16).

The inspiration and idea to do this came from God. Glory be to divine Love – always in action. AND IT MAKES YOU FEEL SO AWESOME!

These are such great — and inspiring! — stories from all. Thanks so much for sharing these, guys. I’m feeling the same pressure that Amy’s feeling now, and that’s a good thing!

To everyone: DON’T FEEL ANY PRESSURE!!! Does God feel pressure to do good, nah. This is what we are meant to do. And as Michael says, it feels great.

Well, first, I shared this forum with a ton of my friends and family to encourage them to give something away everyday and they all loved the idea.

Today I also gave away a pin that I keep on my jacket. I have two actually. One is a no war pin and another says “occupy your heart.” I got into a conversation with a young man at the cafe this afternoon about the No War pin. He said keep preaching and I said, darn right. We all have to be preaching. If we don’t keep living peace and telling others about the need for peace, then war will try and sneak up on us and convince us that peace isn’t gonna work this time. We both agreed to share this message as much as we could. I then took off one of my pins and gave it to him and told him to keep doing the good work and he was appreciative. It was great.

Can’t wait for tomorrow!

YES IT COUNTS! haha. So awesome to see this take off. I had a pretty wild day today – lots of opportunity for giving!

I had a friend who I hadn’t seen in a long, long time come over. We got into a conversation about politics (aw dang) that made him share that he felt that the Christian Science Monitor was too political leaning a certain way for him to support it.

I had, actually, dealt with something similar and had spent a long time not reading it. I was determined to fix the resistance to a paper I knew was doing a lot of good in the world so I picked up a little pamphlet at my local Christian Science Reading Room called “Engaging with the Christian Science Monitor” and it led me to read it on a daily basis and include the issues I read about in it in my daily prayers. I was so thrilled to give it over to him today!

Then I had the opportunity walk through Downtown LA and gave away a couple of free lunches to people who asked me to get them something to eat. Wow – so many people out there love Jesus! ha ha. Why wouldn’t you when you really know what he was about?

GREAT DAY! THANKS GOD!

Lots of good today!

So I left our CSO expecting to give a Science and Health to a friend on campus who expressed interest in learning more about Christian Science.

When I went to find her she wasn’t at the Innovation Lab where she works, but I gave away a book about
Lean Start-up companies to the creative director to give to some of the students who are preparing companies. I tried to give the kind of heavy Science and Health away to my friend since I was on my bike, but he already had one. Two, actually. ha.

As we were walking this super jazzed guy with a burrito stopped us to ask us to vote for his friend for president. He had such an amazing vibe, such a great energy, that I thought to myself “I don’t know anything about this guy’s friend, but I want to vote for this guy!” haha.

His name was Boomer and after walking past him I got the message, “Give Boomer the Science and Health.”

Well, I’ve learned to listen to these voices, so I came up to him and said,

“Are you into immortality?” Well he answered, “Ya, absolutely!” And when I pulled out the book and started telling him about it he immediately said, “I love the Lord!” I told him that I knew it! haha.

So he flipped open the book and read from it. “This is deep.” That’s right it’s deep, Boomer!

We talked for a little while longer, exchanged information, and I told him to check out this website. Maybe he’ll find this post and see me talking about him! haha.

An important point here: I had a beautiful realization after this experience that I am not a renegade. I am not alone. I am not carrying Christian Science on my back to share it with the world. That Mary Baker Eddy set up a beautifully, divinely inspired organization to share Christian Science with the world. This topic is about supporting each other in our sharing – knowing that when I share you share, when you share I share, when one shares we all share!

That the church gives us the resources needed to support our own individual ministry, that ministry is not a competition and that it is not isolated or separated. Christ’s ministry is OUR ministry!

Later in the day I was biking by a delicious fresh fruit stand and decided to get some pineapple (I love pineapple). I realized that I had enough to get two, and that there would be SOME opportunity in the near future to give away the second one! BE PREPARED!

Of course, I found an opportunity to give away the second cup, but more importantly, a woman stopped me on the street and asked for some change. We talked for a bit and I gave her a flier to a Christian Science lecture happening in Los Angeles totally in Spanish (she’s a spanish speaker).

If you’re thinking – “Man, this guy gives away a lot of stuff” let me share what I’ve learned – ALWAYS BE PREPARED! Mentally prepare yourself for these encounters and you’ll have them! See them as opportunities to talk with God – NOT ABOUT GOD.

In all of these experiences I had to have the items I gave away on my person – so do that! When you have the idea and the object they are, actually, the same thing! When you are willing to give away the idea you will, of course, give away the object, also!

I got the Science and Health from the CSO, the Journal from the Reading Room, the flier for the lecture from the church, and the fruit from a guy with a stand on the side of the road next to a CS nursing facility – Church Manual up in hurr!

There’s something to this whole idea of divine Science! It’s a Science for goodness sakes!

Great day today, glory be to God.

[Fill in the blank with your day]

“For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2: 8).