Today I received a card in the mail. It was actually a card thanking me for the card I had sent them a couple of weeks ago when they'd suffered a loss and were on my heart.

When I read her appreciation for the words I'd written to her, my eyes welled up with tears. I had been affirmed and it brightened my whole day - my Whole Wide World.

I was reminded of how many people walk about, right next to us, feeling lost in the crowd, needing affirmation, encouragement, praise, appreciation, whatever you want to call it...a boost!

I think that on any given day, lots of folks feel invisible. I believe we're each called to help bring definition to them - to remind them of what is so particularly extraordinary about them.

So...if it's been on your mind to call, post on their Facebook wall, email, drop a card, sing a song, bake a cake, buy them a chocolate...just do it!

You just might make them cry some happy tears.