Here's another one!

"I loved your idea, I sent the card in my Bag to my God Mother because her name came to me when I opened it, put some cash in the bag and gave it to a friend who lives in MA. 

What fun!  Love and light, Brenda"

One of my favorites

I felt called to put a variety of objects in the bags other than cash and cards. I put in stickers and journals and jewelry I made, just to name a few. It felt kind of like a dare…to use things we may have around to share the goodness. This e-mail feels very validating to that intuitive hit. It is also incredibly sweet and loving act of service.

"Hi Jo Anna!

I think this is a brilliant project. I hope you write a book about it! 

Here's a bag update for you.

My bag contained a few little cards of children's stickers. Mostly Disney characters like Winnie the Pooh, Tinker Bell, and Some Princesses. I had no idea what to do with them at first, as I have an 11-year-old daughter who has TONS of those kind of stickers laying around already, and this just seemed like a few more of the same.

But it did give me a chance to pause and see the stickers (which I usually just perceive as part of the mess in my daughter's room) in isolation and as something potentially very fun.  So that was worth a grin, and I decided to put the bag aside and wait until inspiration would come.

Well, it didn't come. I was cleaning out my office yesterday and found the bag and was tempted just to throw it away because I had no idea what to do with a few more kids stickers. Then I realized that my daughter and one of her friends were playing together outside, and they might have an idea or two. I took them the entire bag, with the instructions on it, and asked if they could think of something to do with it.

They came back in a few minutes later asking for some eggs!! I gave them the eggs and they poked holes in them and blew out the guts. Then they carefully rinsed and dried the shells, got out their crayons and the stickers from the bag, decorated the egg shells, ran colorful pieces of yarn through them and hung them on a branch they chose from outside.  Then they took the entire branch (a decorated "egg tree" if you will) upstairs to an elderly, wheelchair bound neighbor of ours who was beside herself with delight at the sight of this beautiful egg tree that will now enliven her home for Easter.

So there you go! The idea works, even if it's not always immediately evident HOW it's going to work!  :-)

Thanks for the chance to play.

Take care,

Lynn"