what are you pouring yourself into?

A few weeks ago I got the pleasure of meeting a young boy that would changed my persective on things.
This young boy's name was Maxford Brown.
Maxford is a boy that can't be any older than 8 years old and he has Down Syndrome.
He greeted me the first time with so much love, joy, and was completely genuine. He was visiting the restaurant I work at and he was very anxious to meet me, find out my name, how I was doing that day and tell me all about himself. This genuine SMALL gesture made a huge difference in my whole day and attitude. Everytime he would walk past he would say "Hi Katlin" over and over again while he was eating. A few days later he came back to see me at the restaurant. When he got there he immediately looked around for me, when he spotted me he came sprinting to me saying "Hi my friend Katlin, can I have a hug?!" This sweet gesture may be small or insignificant to many to you but here are a few things that I draw from this:

Why am I not living like Maxford?
Maxford genuinely loved me for NO reason. He cared when he didn't know me. He had more joy than anyone I have ever met. He made me feel special and needed.

How come an 8 year old (or how ever old he was) can have this much impact on someone's life when more than half of us can look at our lives and have never made this much of an impact on anyone.
Looking at these two short moments with this sweet boy, I wonder as a Christian, why am I not doing this? If everyone just picked one person to make feel special, loved, and cared about daily this world would be a completely different place. God calls us to love like THIS.
As I go into the season of Lent and Easter I think of how God made the ultimate sacrifice of LOVE for his people, sending His son  to die on the Cross for you and me.
 JESUS calls us to love. love strangers, family, friends, enemies, coworkers, grumpy people, happy people, everyone we come in contact with.
Going ahead  I want to challenge YOU and I to make a difference in someone's life.. Make them feel LOVED. SPECIAL. CARE FOR THEM.  everyone deserve that.
40 days of encouraging one another
40 days of random acts of kindness
40 days of making those around you feel loved, wanted, needed and cared for.
I think we can do this. Be intentional, even if its small.

Love God. Love Others. No Regrets.

-Kat