I'd like to say "Easy Come - Easy Go" but those points did not come easy. The fact is I still work hard on collecting them every day.
While it would be totally fun to spend them on myself I'm going to spend them on something a little more noble than myself.
I don't know what it costs but being this is fantasy anyway I'd like to spend my points to purchase addiction counseling for someone/anyone I've helped through my jail ministry. Since I created "The Noodle Ministry" in 2019 my eyes have been opened to the large number of people who have become dependant on drugs even in a community as small as Minot ND.
If my points could free one person from drug addiction it would be well worth it.
The Noodle Ministry came about due to my friendship with a tiny little gal who would drop off her son at Headstart when I was also dropping off Timmothy. She was the sweetest little thing so imagine my shock years later when the Newspaper front page article was this:
The whole story was she was charged with assault with a deadly weapon (as she was robbing a drug dealer of thousands of dollars). Assaulting a police officer, and more. Little 4'10 Heather, mother of two young boys.
This is a pretty lengthy story but to cut it short: I bailed her out of jail and reunited her with her boys and her parents. She dumped her druggie husband, went on the straight and narrow, and went to college to become a drug addiction counselor.
Heather, the college Graduate.
Today Heather is a drug addiction counselor in Minot. When those seeking help come to Heather she can tell them first hand that "it can be done"! Her story is one of few success stories out there. I'd love to be part of another success story and if my points could do it I'd gladly give them up to save another life.
This is an entry into the Active Rain challenge for June 2025 put forth by Anna "Banana" Kruchten and Debe Maxwell, CRS , The Point Store Is Open.
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