Color Someone's World

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness you are able to give. ~Eleanor Roosevelt



What colors your world?  A hot Starbucks on a cold day?  A new book?  A cup of custard sprinkled with nutmeg?  Actually, although I like all those items, what colors my world isn't things--it's "whos."

It's RB bringing me amber tea each morning.  It's Emily brightening my world by her consistent sunny yellow cheerfulness.  It's Melanie sharing her multi-colored eclectic projects she's planning.  It's my grandchildren's red hearts of expressive love, the periwinkle encouragement of my mother, and my sister's orange love of carrots--and me!  Oh, and then I think of my friends.  It's the cream of bagels when breakfasting with Eleanor, the green on Starbucks bags Renae showers on me, and the blue of the heavens when I call on Janene for prayer--again.

If joy comes by giving it to others, as Eleanor Roosevelt said, then my family and friends should have much internal joy.  I'm blessed--over and over again.

I don't know about you, but I'd like to capture some of that joy for myself.  Here are 10 quick ideas to get us going.

Leave a favorite treat by your husband's treat (RB usually gets cashews or combos).

Do a chore you child is responsible for.

Deliver a Starbucks or one of McDonald's $1.00 drinks to a friend's place of business.

Compliment a sales clerk or waiter.

Leave a candy bar for the cleaning staff at the office.

Loan a favorite book to a friend.

Make eye contact and be the first to smile.

Double the next dessert you make and give to a working mother.

Ask to see a grandmother's pictures.

Give a compliment --  tape one to a coworker's monitor, your friend's refrigerator, or insert it into someone's Bible at church.

Another color of my "whos" is the butter white of popcorn --  compliments of our pastor and wife.  Here's a recipe to thank a friend who colors your world.

My childhood world was colored with a mixture of red and green popcorn.  Made by my Great-Grandma Miller each Christmas, piled high in a big enamel ware wash basin beside  my Great-Papa's chair.

 Each color:

1 bag microwave popcorn
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup water
Food coloring

Cook sugar, water and food coloring until a thread forms.  Poor over popcorn.

Be careful of food coloring.  I used 4 drops and the green looked muddy.  Less is best.


 

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