Rainbow of Hope Sticky Notes Encourage People
By Shari Wilks
This is my first year as a member of Rest Ministries and this is also my first year participating in the Invisible Illness Week.
This past Monday I had to make a trip to the post office to mail a letter and as I walked into the lobby I looked over my shoulder and saw a bulletin board. The cork bulletin board contained many different items pinned to it such as business cards, flyers advertising vehicles for sale, information offering baby sitting services, church concerts, tutoring and more.
As I was looking at the different items posted on that cork bulletin board I giggled and thought to myself, as Lisa Copen would say, I’m feeling a little mischievous!
I had just placed a few packs of post it notes in my purse along with a couple of Sharpie pens right before I left to mail my letter. I borrowed them from my daughter because she is “The Post It Note Princess” in our house. She leaves them everywhere and is very fond of the bright, flourescent colored post it notes.
I had a pack of every color. . . red, orange, yellow, neon green, blue, purple, and pink. I began to write messages of encouragement on the first post it note of every pack, a total of seven notes, stuck a push pin in each note and lined them up to form a nice little rainbow in the center of the bulletin board.
I stood back and smiled at my Rainbow of Encouragement. The only thing missing was my camera. I wish I could have taken a picture of it to share at invisibleillness.com.
I quickly forgot about the camera and thought to myself, I have no idea if anyone will take one of these notes, but I am sure that my Rainbow of Encouragement will definitely grab someone’s attention!
I returned to the same post office to mail a package today. I walked into the lobby and glanced over at the bulletin board and guess what?
My Rainbow of Encouragement was gone! Every little vibrant colored, encouraging post it note was missing! I smiled and thought to myself, Thank you God, I guess My Rainbow of Encouragement actually turned out to be Your Rainbow of Hope because at least seven more people who have an invisible illness will come to Rest Ministries and get visible hope!
Invisbleillness.com – “Each One, Can Reach One” . . . and I’m eager to reach many more.
Shari has had Myasthenia Gravis for 16 years and fibromyalgia for a year. She has had many ups and downs with MG, also known as remissions and relapses. She says, “My last MG relapse caused the fibromyalgia and also depression. I was in the deep dark tunnel called ‘life’ for almost a year before I saw the Light. I am happy to say that by God’s grace I am doing much better because I have decided to center my life around God and NOT my chronic illness.” Visit Shari’s Page at the >Rest Ministries and HopeKeepers Sunroom.
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What an inspirational sharing of hope and encouragement. You may have something with the rainbow of post it notes. I can only imagine how those post it notes impacted the life of someone in need of hope. God Bless you Shari as you do His work.
What an awesome story! I think post-it notes are on my shopping list for this evening! Thank you for sharing your rainbow of hope!
Thank you 517butterfly :) Who would have thought that encouraging others would be so easy and so fun to do? I have recruited my daughter to help in my mission of encouragement. She is having so much fun posting those mystery notes all over the place. I took her to the grocery store and she stuck a few hope notes on the cans of spaghettios!
Blessings!