Really? I was just trying to be nice...

So, tonight our church did their monthly community outreach. We went to a few different assisted living facilities and gave flowers to the residents. It was nice. The ones who answered their little "apartment doors" were friendly and glad to have someone bring them a little treat. It was all very "warm-fuzzy." When we left, there were lots of left over flowers so Kitty and Baby Belle asked if we could take them home and give them to our various neighbors.

I told them we could take 5.

When we got home, the girls and I walked around to our closest neighbors... except we had to go to about 10 different houses because most people didn't open their doors. The ones who did, looked at me like I was crazy as I explained why my precious three-year-old was trying to hand them a beautiful yellow gerber daisy. They took the flower. They (mostly) politely thanked us and promptly closed the door... probably before we could we spit out whatever they thought our real motivation was for being there.

We had NO other agenda... except to love on our neighbors.

Is the world really so deprived of love and kindness that even a simple flower from a three year old is looked at with suspicion? That makes me sad.