{"id":31,"date":"2006-10-02T21:06:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T02:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/angel\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2006-12-31T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2006-12-31T23:52:09","slug":"you-get-what-you-give","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"You Get What You Give"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo_h\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/photos\/2006\/10\/Pipkins_Riverwalk_April2005.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDeb, Bruce, Lindsey, Kelsey and Allison at the Riverwalk in San Antonio<br \/>\nApril 2004<\/div>\n<p>The entire Pipkin family (Bruce, Deb and both the girls)\u00c2\u00a0have kind hearts. Children, animals and elderly people are not only safe, but cherished, in their home.\u00c2\u00a0 They are always helping the helpless.<\/p>\n<p>Just recently,\u00c2\u00a0a mother cat and six kittens who live across the road were in a bad situation.\u00c2\u00a0 The Pipkins, being who they are, could not watch idly while these animals suffered.\u00c2\u00a0 I won&#8217;t go into the whole story, but one of the kittens had a terrible accident and needed quite a bit of medical help&#8230; more than the Pipkins could afford.<\/p>\n<p>But Deb couldn&#8217;t give the consent to have the kitten put to sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 So she spent the afternoon on the phone and collected $700!\u00c2\u00a0 She said she had no idea that she would be able to raise $700 with just a few phone calls.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t find it unbelievable at all.\u00c2\u00a0 Deb, Bruce, Kelsey, and Lindsey are <em>always<\/em> helping other people.\u00c2\u00a0 Just in the past couple of years, they have thoroughly cleaned my house twice, created an absolutely beautiful baby room for Lily, and\u00c2\u00a0gave us a bassinet, baby swing, carseat, crib sheets\u00c2\u00a0and changing table\u00c2\u00a0for Lily when she was born.\u00c2\u00a0 And that&#8217;s just what they have done for us.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t even know all the goodness and kindness they have showed other people.<\/p>\n<p>So when Deb calls, very upset and asking for a favor, people don&#8217;t even hesitate.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;What do you need, Deb?\u00c2\u00a0 Let us know how we can help.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You really do receive back whatever you send out into the world.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, what is that I hear in the background?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it The Beatles?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And in the end<br \/>\nThe love you take<br \/>\nIs equal to the love<br \/>\nYou make \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deb, Bruce, Lindsey, Kelsey and Allison at the Riverwalk in San Antonio April 2004 The entire Pipkin family (Bruce, Deb and both the girls)\u00c2\u00a0have kind hearts. Children, animals and elderly people are not only safe, but cherished, in their home.\u00c2\u00a0 They are always helping the helpless. Just recently,\u00c2\u00a0a mother cat and six kittens who live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angelsdesk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}