The day was Thankful Thursday. It’s a weekly   1   that my two little girls and I began years ago. Thursday has become our day to go out and make a positive   2  .
    My girls shouted “McDonald’s, McDonald’s” as we   3   along a busy Houston road. Suddenly I   4   that almost every crossing I passed through was   5   by a panhandler(乞丐). And then it hit me! All these panhandlers must be hungry, too. Perfect! After we ate, I ordered a(n)   6   15 lunches and we set out to deliver them. We would pull   7   a panhandler, make a contribution, and tell him or her that we hoped things got better. Then we’d say, “Oh,   8   … here’s lunch.”
    We handed our final contribution to a small woman and then immediately   9   back in the opposite direction for home.   10  , the light caught us again and we were stopped at the same crossing where this small woman stood. I was   11   and didn’t know quite how to behave.
    She made her way to our car, “No one has ever done   12   like this for me before,” she said with   13  . Feeling uneasy, and wanting to move the conversation along, I asked, “So,   14   do you think you’ll eat your lunch?”
    She just looked at me with her huge, tired brown eyes and said, “Oh honey, I’m not going to eat this lunch.” I was   15  , but before I could say anything, she continued, “You see, I have a little girl and she just loves McDonald’s, but I don’t have the money. But you know   16  … tonight she is going to have McDonald’s!”
    I don’t know if the kids   17   the tears in my eyes. So many times I had questioned whether our acts of kindness were too   18   or insignificant to really effect change.   19   in that moment, I recognized the   20   of Mother Teresa’s words: “We cannot do great things — only small things with great love.”