On this memorial day weekend, I am taking a little break form the computer and doing some home projects - building a wall, painting a bedroom and bathroom and working on cleaning up the house in general. I will post some pics of my wall building project later, but just getting the stone for the wall was in itself a story…more on that later. The title of my post is what I wanted to write about. I was at target looking for some new picture frames and had a ton of family pictures with me. I wanted to see what some of them might look like so I took them in. Turns out that I didn’t buy anything and was in a hurry to leave Target to hit Old Navy and I accidentally left all my family pics in the buggy at Target.

The bad part was I didn’t realize this until 10:15pm - Target was closed and I wasn’t sure exactly where I had left the pictures. So I drove back in desperation. Everyone was gone at Old Navy and I wasn’t sure that was where I had left them anyway. A young guy was running from Target to round up some buggies so I stopped him and told him what happened. He was more than nice and stopped what he was doing to help me out. He went back in and looked around the Customer Service desk for about 10 minutes and came out with a smiling face and my family pictures. Not only had someone been so nice to turn them in, but he was even nicer to go try and search for them even after they were closed. What a relief!

Do you part today and help someone out whether they know it or - silent kindness during an unexpected opportunity will make someone’s day when all else seems to have been lost for that person. The opportunities are there, you just have to seize them.

Cheers! Matthew