Remembering Emily with Random Acts of Kindness
This Friday, June 17th, will mark two years since Emily passed away. Please help us honor her memory this week by performing a random act of kindness for a stranger. Hold the door for someone. Let someone go ahead of you in line. Pay the tab for the person behind you in line at the coffee shop, gas station or the drive-through. Say hello to a stranger and ask how their day is going. Bring flowers to a nursing home, and ask if you can give them to someone who doesn’t have many visitors. Surprise your waiter with a generous tip. Give a stranger a compliment (if you can manage to do it with Emily-like enthusiasm, you will make someone’s day!) Please post your random act of kindness here or on our Facebook page. If you want to remain anonymous, send us a message telling us what your did to honor Emily, and we will include it in a daily update, so that we can see all of the kindness being spread around in Emily’s name. Her spirit lives on….
Awwww my sweet little Emily. Two years since the Lord took you to his heaven and still I think of you every single day and always with a smile. She had of way of making everyone smile. Right now I’m remembering the story of Emily when she was lost at the YMCA. Ask Jen to tell you that one. Such a sweetie to every person she met whether she knew them for a minute or for years.
As my teenage daughter sat around the campfire this weekend with friends they talked about her for hours. High school kids, some which knew her and some which didn’t , yet they spoke of her kindness and remembered her loving nature over smores. Emily loved smores btw so I’m sure she was nearby in spirit! lol I love that she still has that kind of impact on others who continue to learn from her example of generosity, kindness, and sincere love for everyone. If she could live her life this way each and every single day then certainly we can all do at least one act of kindness in her memory on Friday. Although it should be every Friday, if not every day!!!!! I’m not waiting until Friday. I am dedicating this week to being selfless, thoughtful and considerate or every person I cross paths with this week, whether they deserve it or not because that’s what Emily would do. If only we all behaved that way….. The world would be such a better place. I love you Em and my thoughts are always with you and your family. -Auntie Aim
Our precious little blond curly-haired, blue eyed granddaughter died two years ago this week. I’d like to think we taught her to be kind, compassionate, caring, loving, and full of zest for all God,s creatures, human and animal. But, alas, it was Emily who taught us! I am so thankful for the life we shared with her. Although it was much too short, she left more memories of her sincere love of all human kind than most people have in their entire life of sixty and more years. She taught us that it is such a joy to give freely to another, expecting nothing in return. She taught us to be forgiving and not hold grudges. She loved those who mistreated her, She alwas had a high-five, a hug or a kiss, a smile. She’d say, “And how is my beautiful grandma?” Not too many people called me beautiful, and yet she said it wih all sincerety and love. Do I miss her? Oh, my gosh, yes! But I feel her presence always, I hear her talk to me, and she reminds me to follow her example, love the Lord with all my heart, and always be kind to everyone I meet. She want us to be a strong family, for she loved family life. And so we honor her memory by saying, “Thank you, Emily, for all that you taught us, for seeing Jesus in you and others we meet, for your compassion, heroism, and bearer of pain. You are and always will be our Teen Angel. Love you! Grandma and Grandpa
Emily made the world a “better place” by the way she lived her life. What better way to remember her than by continuing her mission by doing random acts of kindness!
One cannot express the impact she had on so many of our lives.
We miss her dearly, but believe she is an angel in God’s heavenly home.
I miss this child every day – her smile, her contagious giggle, her high fives, her ability to light up a room, and her love for music (she was our Karoke Queen!!). How blessed our we to have crossed her path. God has a plan for Emily and I do believe that part of that plan is for us to carry on her “goodness.” What a wonderful idea to do the Random Act of Kindness for Emily today. May God Bless you my dear. You live always in our hearts. Peace.
I forgot to post my random act of kindness! 6:30 this am, as I stopped to buy bananas at the Kwik Trip, I paid for the breakfast of the 20-something year old guy behind me. Unfortunately his breakfast consisted of two energy drinks and a sausage biscuit. The dietitian side of me cringed, but the Emily side of me just smiled – the look on the guys face was priceless!!
This week I loaded up my wallet with extra quarters, and whenever I come across a vending machine, newspaper box, gumball machine, etc., I’ve been tucking a quarter into the coin return slot for the next person to find. When I went into the grocery store earlier this week, there were five assorted vending machines, so I put a quarter into the coin return of each one. Coming out of the store, there was a mom with her two young daughters coming in. The girls went to check the slots, probably like they always do, and the escalating squeals and grins as they discovered a quarter in each one were priceless! Thank you, Emily, for reminding me to be kind to all who cross my path every day.