While I was in Florida with my friend, we volunteered at a rest station her church sponsors every year during a community festival. People are welcome to come to the Youth Center of their church and use the bathroom, get some water and sit down to rest during the heat of the day.
We were sitting at a table at the main entrance of this rest station when a woman rushed in and came up to our table. “How many volunteers are working right now?” she asked. “Three,” my friend answered. She turned around and immediately exited the building without another word. Puzzled by her question, my friend and I just let it go and forgot about it.
A little while later, the woman rushed in again and laid three pairs of earrings on our table, still attached to the cardboard squares you would find in a store. “Here,” she said. “These are for your volunteers — thank you for all you do.”
I found out from my friend later that this woman had a jewelry booth at the festival outside our rest area that featured handmade earrings. She gave us these earrings as gifts from her store to thank us for our service to the community. Again, I had never met this woman until that moment.
I think of her every time I wear my sea glass earrings and remember the generosity she showed to all of us. She is definitely a person showing God’s love, and her act of giving will never be forgotten by me.
