Lately, my husband and I are making homemade bread in the bread machine more often. It is absolutely a treat and so delicious to have a warm slice of homemade bread.
I remember visiting with a lovely elderly lady many years ago. She told me of raising her family and making nine loaves of bread twice a week. I must have exclaimed, "Oh, My"!!! because I remember her saying, "I didn't mind" and then giving a beautiful smile with love glistening from her eyes.
I could tell the joy of seeing her family enjoying her homemade bread meant so very much to her. She made more than bread because, with me, she made an impression ---and a lasting impression it is.
Now I am an elderly lady and her words, "I didn't mind", still reach my heart more than ever before. She made more than nine loaves of bread twice a week--she made wonderful memories, and her sharing of those memories with the words, "I didn't mind", made a lasting impression on me. We just don't know how far our efforts and acts of kindness will reach or who they will touch in the years to come.
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