What's The Kindest Thing Anyone's Ever Done For You???

by minimus 19 Replies latest jw friends

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  minimus

  Was anything especially kind, done for you while you were a Witness??
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  bisous

  I was 20, 5 months pregnant (a so-so JW) and my husband was killed in a car accident. No life insurance, little resources. A young widow in the congregation with 2 kids of her own opened her heart and home to me for over 6 months. She was there for me in any way you could think...listened to me cry my heart out, question my faith, accompanied me to childbirth classes, was my 'labor coach', on and on. Never asked me for a thing.

  Looking back and knowing that she was still suffering from her own loss and how it must have been exacerbated by my presence....I know what a selfless kindness she did for me. an unrepayable gift.
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  Aztec

  I've had alot of kindness shown to me. I suppose I am very fortunate. I've had people worry about me and then yell at me when I didn't let them know I needed help. There are people out there that I love so much it almost hurts. I won't go into details cause that's not me. The people out there on this forum who I love know I love them.

  Aside from this place I had a teacher in the tenth grade who cared about me and my education very much. He was a new teacher; very passionate about his chosen career. He took me under his wing and encouraged me quite a bit. He always cast me as the lead when he did his quiz/plays. He was kinder to me than anyone I knew had been at that point in my life. He saw potential in me that few before had ever mentioned and I miss him for that reason the most. Yes, I was a teacher's pet. So what! I hope he's still encouraging other young people with the same vigor.

  ~Aztec
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  minimus

  I was offered a breath mint once.
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  obiwan

  The kindest thing?

  When I was df'd, I didn't have anywhere to go, not even a place to live.( I roomed with some jws ) At the time I delivered product to fast food establishments. I was "living" in my work truck for about two weeks. I had told a person at one of my delivery stops about my situation. One day out of the blue, he and his family stop by my truck, and insist that I stay with them until I get on my feet.......I will never forget them.
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  shera

  Last yr,I didn't have a great amount of money.Matthew's(my austic son) doctor put our name in for gifts and a turkey for last Christmas.That was the first time anyone outside of my family has thought of my family like that.This doctor is a kind,thoughtful man.He puts so much intrest into my son.The first doctor,that shows he cares what happens with my boy.He even shows consideration towards me and how I'm feeling.The man deserves an award.
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  blondie

  When my hubbie was in the hospital, the neighbor came over and mowed the yard, unasked. It made my tears mist. My family, not even a card (and i'm not df'd or da'd).

  Blondie
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  Billygoat

  I was offered a breath mint once.

  That kindness was for OUR benefit! The NYE immediately after I was disfellowshipped (just a few months later) I attempted suicide. I was 19 and had just been kicked out of my parents home. I had nothing. I was living with two worldly friends from work and they were off on a weekend get-away together. I had their name on my emergency card in my purse and the hospital attendants called them to tell them what I'd done. They immediately left their romantic weekend and stayed by my bedside for the next two days at the hospital. I will never be able to repay them for that kindness. Tonya and Daniel Wilson (although they are no longer married) were basically angels in skin for me that weekend. Without them, I would have had no reason to keep on. What's really sad...is that same hospital attendant was a sister in the congregation. She recognized who I was and called my JW parents to tell them that I was there getting my stomach pumped. My parents never showed up. In fact, they never acknowledged that they even knew until years later. How on earth could I still miss those people???
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  Mulan

  One day out of the blue, he and his family stop by my truck, and insist that I stay with them until I get on my feet.......I will never forget them.

  That is wonderful. It made me remember something that happened almost 40 years ago. Dave and I were driving in our truck, with our 2 month old baby to visit some of his relatives in Astoria OR, driving late at night from Seattle. It was January, and we got into a snowstorm in Southwest Washington, and the truck broke down. We were scared to death, and didn't know what we were going to do. It was very late at night and there was no traffic at all. We sat for about a half hour, trying to figure something out, when a car pulled up behind us. An older man came to the window and asked if we needed help. He insisted that I bring the baby to their car to keep warm. His car was big and inside were his wife and daughter. They had picked the daughter up at the bus station for the weekend. She was a nurse at a hospital in Seattle and they lived in Raymond, a very small town.

  As it turns out, the truck needed to be towed, so this man insisted on driving us to their home, and he and Dave went back to tow the truck back to their place with his truck, where they worked on it for a couple of hours, to get it running. I don't remember what was wrong now. They fed us, and gave us one of their spare rooms, complete with a crib for the baby, and insisted we stay the night. Since we were going to Astoria, the short way, we had to get a ferry and the last one had gone a couple of hours before, so again, we would be stuck. Now there is a bridge, but in 1964, it was just the ferry.

  While we were at their home, they played a tape sent to them by their other daughter, who was a Christian missionary teacher in Alaska, at a remote area. It was fascinating, and it was obvious what truly good people they and their family really were. Dave and I talked over the years, how these people were so kind to us (strangers to them) and they weren't even JW's. I admit that confused us, but like most things that happen to you, you put it on a shelf, because it just doesn't fit how we are taught.

  We were 18 and 20 that night. We left them a thank you letter, when we left very early the next morning, and I always intended to follow up, but lost their address. They may have saved our lives.
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  minimus

  It seems that some of the most memorable kindnesses come from the "world". I wonder why.....