Looking back on my life there are a couple of things people said to me that had a profound effect and stayed in my memory. I will post a couple of them so you can see were I'm going with this.
I seem to remember having read somewhere that it is the small remarks that might just hit the spot and have us doing some life changes. Thanks for sharing some of yours. Here is one of mine.
I remember my then thirteen year old daughter coming up to me while I was making super and telling me 'Mom, how come you don't smile anymore'. It hit me that if my child could notice this, I needed help. I got it ASAP.
One time in my early dating life, it was a trend for a bunch of girlfriends to go to an event i.e. a college basketball game in our town, and the goal was to not go home with each other, but maybe meet a guy and let him take us home, and at this time I felt our community was a pretty safe one.....so one night I left with a guy I had met several times before and when we got in the car he said to me (in hopes of raising my awareness of "bad" people out there): "How do you know I'm really going to take you home" -- implying that a creepier guy might hurt me or something....well I thought that was creepy enough to never see him again, but it did have it's effect of making me more cautious about dating.
I remember something my mother said to me after my second (I had a total of 5) miscarriage. She said, 'sometimes I think God has given you so much that this won't happen for you'. I don't hold it against her. I realize that as my mother, she too was hurting and probably didn't know what to say. But, wow, I really haven't forgotten it.
