A couple of nights ago I had a crazy dream and I woke up really early in the morning. While I was laying there trying to go back to sleep the most random thought came into my mind that I should give a boy in my SS class some $. This boy is such a good kid, and he has had some really hard knocks in his young life. He lives with an older couple in our ward and there is one other family in the ward that has sort of adopted him. They get him to school, feed him, etc.
Anyway, I didn't do anything about that prompting the next day, but then this morning I woke up early again with the thought that I needed to give this boy some $ NOW. So I got ready for work really fast, called the family who gets him off to school to arrange anonymous delivery, went to the ATM, got the cash, and left it on the front porch of this family's house in an envelope with an anonymous note. It wasn't a huge amount of money, but it was definitely enough that he could do something that otherwise would be out of his grasp. And it was enough that I will need to not buy some other things to make up for what I gave him. That's what counts. It needs to hurt a little bit.
It felt really good to do this, mostly because I think I acted on a prompting. I hope that the anonymity will make him look at everyone in the ward and feel loved because who knows who did him a kindness?
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