Monthly Kindnesses

Monthly Kindnesses a list of the kind ways people have blessed me.

APRIL

• Nathan & Rebecca Dingle in Australia - I house sat for Nathan and Rebecca for 10 days while they took their boys on an Island cruse. So the privilege of looking after their home and being able to use their internet connection is a blessing enough. But this couple, who were complete strangers to me before we meet the day of their leaving, seemed to be more thankful to me for being their and they just showed me with their generosity. computer bag, 32 GB flash stick, use of both their cars and motorbike. Don't worry at putting petrol in (I did however). Use of any food items in fridge and pantry. A drive into town on my last day after giving me lunch - Just an incredibly very generous couple.
  
• Rachel Dunn and partner Micheal Hole - I meet Rach while in Thailand, while on a film shoot, she was also a documentary film maker, Australian, and my age so we hit it off and collaborated on our projects for the few days we were together. I meet up with Rach in Sydney and we found we have more in common with in our entrepreneurial lifestyle businesses and creative thinking, and we, along with her partner who's currently quit his day job to reach his dream in writing his first novel, hit it all famously that they were both very gracious and offered me their couch for a handful of nights in their very small one bedroom studio apartment in Bondi Beach. They've blessed me with a sounding board of brainstorming ideas and we've been in a little bubble of web site working bees - each on their own. We've hung out allowing our spontaneous side to come out and play which really bonded us (Photos)
  
• Fountain in the City Church - for their AMAZING meals they put on each week after their afternoon church service that is different each week from all the incredibly beautiful ethnic diversity within their congregation.
  
• TJ - a familiar face from home who's moved to Sydney, Nicky at Fox Valley Rd Church, Sharon and Judith from Fountain in the City and Rachel who put me up, for their, as my daughter calls them D&M's - deep and meaningful - conversations. Sometimes, I mean all the time! Getting below the surface and hearing about the real life of another is so special that long after our time spent together I'm still thinking of them. Each woman shared their hearts and totally blessed me with seeing how God moved in each of our lives.
  
• The elderly chap, and two sets of different people on bus who struck up a conversation with Mike, Rach and I after we were covered in coloured chalk die - made our 40min ride home delightful and full of laughter with quirky convo. All complete strangers.
  
• Brent from the photographers Meet Up in Darling Harbour - a professional horticultural photographer working on well known Australian TV shows was real fun to hang out with at the Holi Indian Colour Festival. His generosity in conversation and letting me hold the weight of his camera was awesome. It amazes me how God blesses each of us with special skills and talents as Brent told me that he remembers the name and intimate details of every plant he reads about and finds them to take photos for clients. He had a favourite plant that has the tallest flower in the world, and he said though his learning about horticulture he told me how plants grow and are connected in their root system and if one is sick the others send it their sap to recover and they grow in such a way they 'tell' each other to give each space away from one another and where not to grow - case and point when a truck passes under the branches of a low hanging tree, the tree realises that those branches and leaves are getting broken so it doesn't grow there any more - I did not know this and I marvel at the way God works all things out and then He teaches someone as it becomes a love, passion and career in life. Amazing. I really enjoyed talking with Brent.