The difference you make may never be known to you

Greetings:

Every day you have an opportunity to make a difference. The challenge is you may never know the difference you make.

Recently I came across a book that I had given to my mother when she had breast cancer. I sent the book to my mother and she never mentioned receiving it. I just figured it was way too much for her to handle so she didn't read it and didn't appreciate me sending it to her.

As I was going through the book, Fine Black Lines - Reflections on Facing Cancer, Fear and Loneliness, I noticed the book had been signed twice by Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad, the author of the book. Once in 1993 and once in 1997. The book was stuffed with pamphlets and fliers about other cancer events and there was a hand written note by my mom on directions to some event. Although to my disappointment nothing was written in the book by my mom, I can tell it has been read. By the way the book is stuffed with pamphlets and such she must have kept it around for a resource. Whatever she did with the book I can tell that in some way it did make a difference to her and she did appreciate it.

After finding the book I decided to look up the author Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad and you won't believe this. She lives right here in Colorado in a town near me. I had no idea. I sent her an email to see if she might want to be on my radio show! I thought that would be an interesting show to do especially now that I know my mom had some kind of connection to her. I will let you know if Lois is going to be on the show or not.

So the moral of the story is you never know who you will make a difference to or even what difference you make. It doesn't matter, do the kindness anyway, go out of your way for someone or send them a book that you are not even sure they will read. You just never know what impact your action may have on their life.

Here's to taking action,

Rachelle