It's the little things

When we live in a busy world, where most of our transactions are digital, and pictures of babies are posted on facebook 5 minutes are they are born, it makes the daily trip the mail box not much fun anymore.

I have been working very hard lately, and it's been quite a struggle because everything is very unorganized for me.  That is another blog post, and I will explain, but working among a mess is a difficult situation.  It tends to get me down.  I am not a neat freak by any means, but I do need a clean house and a clean space to feel my best creativity.

So the other day it was dark and dreary for the umth day in a row and I was going through the motions of my day.  Work as hard as I can until it's time to go get Julie, grab the mail on the way in at 3:00 and try to wind down while I do what I can to make myself available in case my little hormone machine should want to privy me with any details of her day.  (I admit that I am not great at that, I try daily, and almost always get side tracked before the good stuff spills)  Oh, back to the mail, so I noticed as I was carrying it in that there were two hand written envelopes.  I recognized one immediately, it was a check from my favorite client of ten years, who has grown into a friend.  I felt something thick in the envelope, and as I opened up the check, I smiled over finding a tea bag and this note:

It was so cute, and I was a bit chilled, and it was time for tea, so I heated up some water and enjoyed her sweet sentiment right away.  Isn't it funny how the little things in life just make us feel special?  I could just see her about to send off my check and thinking to herself, "What can I do to make her feel special?  Oh, I know, a tea bag!!"  

Next I opened up a card that was hand written to Mary Zimmer at A Great Impression.  That piqued my interest right away.  Since being in business for 2 and a half years with A Great Impression, I have received 3 thank you notes from happy customers.  Who does that?  I don't, that's for sure.  I usually expect to appreciate the products that I buy, and don't think to then Thank the person who I bought it from.  But some people are actually that thoughtful and kind.  Take a look at this incredible note:

I seriously almost started crying.  Picturing this woman taking 5 or 10 minutes in her little house in East Africa to thank me for a vinyl wall art order she had gotten.  I was thinking about how much meaning and feelings she put into her thank you, and I just knew without a doubt in my mind that God wants me to get more missionaries some more vinyl wall art. I had been praying for a way that I could better serve God with what I do, and this sounds so exciting, doesn't it?

So, I did a little research and found out that I can send a box with vinyl wall art to Africa for about $15.00 slow mail.  

I also have had some time do to some praying.  (My method is to first pray, and ask God how he likes my ideas. Then after I get the go ahead from HIM, I usually run it by my husband to check myself and make sure I am not imagining things are good when they are not.)  So next I ran my new idea by Mark.  I got the total thumbs up, so now I am running it by you.

Here is the Idea:

You can now go onto www.agreatimpression.com and purchase the postage for a missionary of your choice to receive a free vinyl wall decal.  

Just go here:  http://www.agreatimpression.com/category_17/Send-Art-To-Missionaries.htm

I will make a calendar and add it to this page after I have gotten my first missionary sponsored for a free decal.  We will all be all be able to check the calendar from A Great Impression and get to see who is being blessed each work.

I will provide the decal, if you will partner with me and provide the shipping.  

I am so excited to watch God work though this idea.

Blessings!

Mary