Prayables | $1000 Tippers

Published: Mon, 06/17/24

Updated: Thu, 06/20/24

Monday June 17, 2024

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.
Henry Ford

Dear God, You're telling me to ask for what I need. Not just the Big Things but all the little things I'm tempted to do in my own will and might. I can't even imagine what my life might look like if I invited You into every little thing—every interaction, every email sent, every task. But I'd like to start remembering You more in the overlooked details of my day. Help me to try. Amen.
Hannah Brencher

The enemy came for me but found God waiting instead.
Psalm 27:2

It’s a long race, and you never know what’s around the bend. May you be blessed to stay the course to victory.

THE $1000 BREAKFAST CLUB

Roberto Rivas teaches Spanish full-time at a local high school, and on weekends, he waits tables at two restaurants, including an IHOP, so he can pay his bills.

Rivas had just finished serving pancakes and eggs to a party of 16 on a busy Saturday morning in Norwood, Mass., when one of the customers at the table called him over.

“We have something for you,” the customer, Richard Brooks, told Rivas. “The only reason we came to breakfast today was to give you this tip.”

Brooks pulled out a pile of $100 bills and counted them into Rivas’s hand, explaining that he and his friends were members of the $1,000 Breakfast Club. Each person had contributed $100 to leave for the server, $1,600 in all.

Rivas, 29, said he almost burst into tears that Saturday morning in last June.

He’d been saving money to buy his mother new hearing aids, and the tip now allows him to buy them...Read More

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