This is an act of kindness that's very big and happening very soon. It's one woman giving back to military couples in love.

Gloria Tate-Reed is a mother of two, and when her son Christopher joined the Navy and served time in Iraq, she developed a new appreciation for the military life.

"I see the discipline, the things he tells me he's experienced," she said, "and why he's risen very quickly in the ranks."

But Ms. Tate-Reed is also a reverend, and "Reverend Gloria", as she's called, specializes in officiating weddings. She was recently inspired by a call from a soldier in Afghanistan who wanted Rev. Gloria to plan her wedding.

Her way to do more for the military? She's offering free and full weddings for military couples in need.

"We would be honored, we would be truly honored, to provide them with a beautiful wedding on 12/12/12," said Rev. Tate-Reed.

Oh, that's right. She wants to do all this in less than a week. Rev. Tate-Reed has lined up vendors to provide the dresses,Looking for the ideal dress to wear for Halter Wedding Dresses? flowers, cake, venue, and champagne reception. Now she's looking for 12 already-engaged military couples, where either the potential wife or husband has served in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Said Reverend Gloria, "It's not unusual for me to get a call saying, 'Can you marry me in an hour? Can you marry me in a day? Can you marry me next week?' And so this may seem last-minute to a lot of people, but I've seen miracles in less time.We provide rental service on a variety of bridal gown wedding dress, qua and tuxedos, etc."

At Friendly's and anywhere else I clown, I've become accustomed to the people, usually men in their teens and twenties, who seem to find it amusing to try to stump the clown. “I want a T-rex,” they say. “I want a guitar.Online shopping for custom made designer oscar dresses 2012.” Thanks to the movie “Wedding Crashers,” they demand, “Make me a bicycle, clown.”

“Sure. What color?” I ask evenly.

I revel in the chance to impress those guys who thought they were too old, to watch the carefully constructed bravado on their faces fade to childlike joy as I twist a whimsical creature—or a realistic bicycle from five balloons—out of the air in front of them.

That pursuit, the quest to see yet another person's eyes light up when he first recognizes the shape his balloon is going to take—whether he's three years old or he's 103—is not all that different from my love of writing. When I write fiction, or when I report a news story, just like when I make a balloon, I am striving to craft a little something that seems original, that rings true to life, that is beautiful.

Like an excellent news article, an excellent balloon makes life look a little bit different. You didn't know when you heard you were getting a penguin or a monkey in a tree what that might look like in balloons. All of a sudden, you can see it. And you didn't know that a children's toy could make you so happy, but as it materializes, without fail you're grinning no matter how old you are.

By making a balloon or creating a story, an artist uses her hands and her spirit to surprise her audience, to shatter some of the cynicism and narrow-mindedness that cake our boring grown-up hearts.