63 Days

Messages left on the line between February 22nd, 8am and February 24th, 11pm.

First off, I just want to say thanks so much for doing this project, it’s really, well, warming, I guess. Yeah, its a bright spot. I want to start my message with the fact that I believe in God. And I feel that when we are loving our fellow travelers in this human world, we’re sharing his love. And that brings joy. A couple of nights ago I was working on a paper, I’m a grad student, I was working on a paper and got reminder texts from people in my cohort about my paper and I realized this texts must have been sent out to the wrong text group because it was missing one student in our class and I was just thinking about her and she’s actually sick with COVID right now and the thought kept coming to my mind throughout the day and I believe that this thought came from God, the thought came to my mind- text her, remind her, and for some reason I just kept either forgetting or it wasn’t a good time to pull out my phone or I was thinking, gosh she probably already finished the paper, she’s on top of everything, but it was 9:45 at night, I remembered again, the thought came, and I thought gosh its late but I’m just going to text her, why not? So, I texted her, hey you probably already did the paper but I just wanted to remind you that it’s due tonight. And she texted me back almost immediately and said hey, I started working on this on Saturday but i felt really awful so I stopped, thanks for the reminder and the motivation to keep doing it. So, I was glad I could help her out. Then yesterday she texted me again and said hey I finished that paper but what I really wanted to thank you for was just for reaching out because I felt loved. And thats what actually matters. So, that’s my story. That’s my experience that brought me joy. A little bit of light in this dark time. It’s snowing, it’s been snowing where I live and we had a nice weekend with sunshine but the snow has returned so I’m grateful to share this experience with you. I hope you have a great day.

What brought me joy today was I was able to talk to an older man today, I was interviewing for a cleaning job and he has had four strokes and on the phone he was just the kindest, softest voiced man, so when I did get to meet him in person I did get to tell him that he had such a kind voice and it just gave me such joy and happiness to sit and talk with this man who has braces on his legs, who has a walker, who has had four strokes and he really had a great sense of humor and it just makes one appreciate when we have good health and that someone can look so positive with all the things that they have to deal with. But, it was just really a nice visit and even if I don’t get the job it doesn’t matter because I feel like my life was so enriched just by talking to this gentleman.