About three years ago, my wife, Mary and I, bought a freezer that we placed on the porch. In it, there is every type of frozen popsicle or ice cream on a stick that is made. It is, therefore, whenever a delivery driver needs a pick-me-up, FedEx, Amazon, UPS, the US Mail, they all stop to get a popsicle. Our US mail carrier, Fred, whom we love, gets two ice cream sandwiches every day.
Since the way of the world is to order everything you will ever need with your phone, it is not unusual to hear the freezer door open and close at 2:00 A.M. It makes me smile as I roll over and go back to sleep. These days, we all need to be giving out more popsicles. It leads to conversations with our delivery drivers about life. Simple things, kind things, things that may not be earth-shattering, but that bring us closer together with people we might not know were it not for free ice cream on the Morris porch.
If you know where I live, come on by. Just don't take the last of Fred's ice cream sandwiches. It makes him grumpy. This is Dr. Scott Morris for Church Health.
