A new day with new ways to give

Now comes the hard part, or maybe not. It was easy to say I was giving when I had my brother visiting, but now I have to have my eyes and heart open to opportunities I am yet unaware of for giving. I dumped all my loose change in the Salvation Army bucket yesterday. I had a conversation with a complete stranger in the pet store. Today I am going to follow up on volunteering my time at a nearby pregnancy help center. I have made monetary donations to the center in honor of my neice for several years and now hope that I can be of some service with my time and energy. I don't know why I am drawn to helping out with this organization, out of all the many I could chose from in my community, but the Lord will show me His plans. I donated anonymously each year and my sister (my neice's mother) would receive a card that said an anonymous donation had been made in my neice's honor. She asked me a few weeks ago if I was the one that had been giving in my neice's honor and I told her "yes". She asked me why, as my neice had never been pregnant (she died of leukemia). I said, "but what if..." Had she lived she may have been a wife and mother. She may have been many things and done great things with her life. By paying it forward, in her honor, that promise of a better life for someone is still present. Maybe she understands, maybe not.
My husband had to go back to work yesterday after a nine day Thanksgiving vacation. He came home exhausted. It takes awhile sometimes for the effects of sleep deprivation and physical exertion to catch up. Most of the time I jokingly have to tell him, "you don't know it, but you are tired". Last night I didn't have to do that-he knew. I made him supper and he watched a bit of tv and off to bed he went. I made sure our puppy was taken out in the night and was quiet for him to sleep. This morning, after 11 hours of sleep he is muddy but I think once the caffeine kicks in he will feel much better.
Mentioning my puppy, my silky terrier is the sweetest 5.8 pounds of love I know! She will be 5 months old on the 5th of December and has given me such great pleasure having her. She has lots of spunk and energy and I often think I'm much too old to be trying to keep up with her. But she's settling in nicely in her home with us and once the cats agree to accept her (and she quits trying to lick them to death) it will be a sweet little furry family we have. I think a big reason why I got her is that I have a granddaughter on the other side of the country that I don't get to see near enough and so my puppy is my surrogate granddaughter until my daughter and her family moves closer to home.