If you need to know one thing about me, it’s that I consider myself the luckiest person in the world because of the people i’ve been able to meet (and be related to). I won the lottery. The something powerful that comes to mind is from the morning I found out my dad passed away. My roommate at the time, Jen, was incredibly loving and gentle with me. The other things that happened were three of my Nashville actor friends drove to see me shortly after they found out. They came in, full of energy and with flowers, candy, and DVDs in town. They put on Mean Girls and hunkered down, allowing me to leave the room to cry when i needed to, and hug me when I needed that. It was incredibly thoughtful. Sometimes it’s hard for me to articulate or identify what I need in a moment - especially one that’s overwhelming. Those girls didn’t waste any time - they just were there, whether I needed them or not - and that day, I needed them more than ever. I’ve experienced that over and over again from close friends and family. The other thing from that day which was hugely impactful was when my pastor, Lloyd, called because he’d heard through the grapevine about my dad. Because of the snow and ice, my car was stuck in the garage and couldn’t make it up the hill to get out of our neighborhood. He assured me that I’d get to Memphis for the funeral, no matter what. Once again, an example of people doing, not waiting for me to ask for what I needed.
The other thing that came to mind while writing the above was thinking about my recent car troubles. I was gifted an older truck when I moved to Georgia. It was fun to drive and I really enjoyed being the girl in the little white truck. However, toward the middle of this year, it started having issues and broke down more than once. This resulted in the truck needing to be in the shop for a good bit of time. Instead of me having to deal with rental car costs in addition to fixing the truck, I had a couple of friends just offer up their cars for me to borrow. They are all single and working more than one job because they’re actors. The generosity and trust still blows my mind. Yet again, I didn’t have to muster up the courage to ask. They heard my stress and offered a solution.
Those are a couple of examples of powerful moments in my life - so full of love. And the people on the other side didn’t ask for anything in return. The saying, “my cup runneth over” comes to mind only, it feels like I have something bigger than a cup - my swimming pool runneth over!