![]() In that position, it was a mental war and the temptation to do the wrong thing was powerful-a life-defining moment. I was broke and times were hard and I had to choose: keep it or tell the clerk she’d made a mistake. The clerk made a mistake and gave me $20 too much change. Anyway, I went into a store and made a small purchase. Like trying to keep your head above water when the water is molasses. Money was tight, and, well, it was one of those times we all have where everything was hard. When I can, I help others.Īt about twenty, I was struggling. And that put me on a path that had me adopting “I Serve” as a personal motto. But it did influence my focus and future decisions until as an adult it became a conscious way of life. Something inside me told me this was a big decision. I could put my wants/needs first or try to help others. That doesn’t seem like a monumental choice, does it? A little thing for a little girl. Do I keep the nickel for myself or put it in the jar to help others? We also had a jar on the window ledge in our classroom at school that was for donations. In second grade, I had a buffalo-head nickel and a comic book that said it was worth a lot more than a nickel. That’s a good thing, because sometimes we take wrong turns, or as my darling daughter would put it, “We don’t make wise choices.” So we’re given chances to redefine ourselves. They’re in small, seemingly insignificant events that truly define to us who we are and who we choose to be.Īs you’d expect, these defining moments don’t all happen at once, but over the course of our lives, and all through our lives we’re presented with opportunities to change our minds. But the keys are often not in huge events. Yet when we think of them in abstract terms, we think they’re these huge events.
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