Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

Mission Accomplished:

Mary at Home-steeped Hope found a 2/3 year old child to surprise with a bag of M&Ms– do I sense a pattern here?

Shelli at Shelli’s Place used her height to her advantage and gave some useful tips for women in the store helping men.

Kindness Demonstrated

MInTheGap was caught away from home with a bad battery and had kindness shown to him.

I’ll post links to the participants tomorrow! Stay Tuned!

Hey kids! There’s a new meme on the block… Weekend Kindness. I really like the sound of it. Every weekend, we’re to get an assignment of kindness, to be completed over the weekend and blogged about by Monday. I think it has tremendous potential to send out ripples of love and kindness through this tired and hurting world of ours. This week, to start off, we were asked to blog about an act of kindness that we received which touched us personally.

Well. For me personally, that’s like trying to pinpoint a breath of air that kept me alive better than any other.

I am blessed beyond all understanding. I have two of the single best parents in the world. I have siblings I adore like nothing else, aunts and cousins, grandparents living and dearly departed who still shape my life and my heart. I have a husband who has stayed by me against all odds – even when I have tried my best to leave him. Along with this family, I have also had friends and neighbours who make me wonder how I have gotten to 30+ years having met so few difficult or hurtful people. Almost everyone I have known has been kind to me. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that kindness has showered me throughout my entire life. Kindness has sweetened nearly every meal I’ve eaten. Who among us can say this has been the case? But we are to write about one kindness that has touched us deeply, so I will.

The kindness Christ showed me when he took the punishment for every evil thing I would ever do is the kindness that changed and continues to change me irrevocably. That God would forgive me, would provide this redemption for me before I even physically existed, is life-altering knowledge. You can’t be the same after really realizing this. This first act of kindness has made it possible for us to be kind to one another.

So, with this meme and God’s help, let’s make “paying it forward” a regular part of our lives!

I’ll leave you with a snippet from one of my favourite songs from Music Machine, a musical play I performed in when I was just seven years old… “Kindness”. The words have stayed with me ever since.

Isn’t God good
When He asks us
Just to love like He does?

Isn’t God good
When He asks us
Just to be so kind?

Cross Posted at Open Up.

Well, it looks like it is Mary, Shelli, MInTheGap
and Shari.

If you didn’t sign up, you can still do one and we’ll pick you up via Technorati!

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Doing a Thursday Thirteen This Week?

You could post a link to this site in the comments of your Thursday Thirteens and see if people would like a chance at a new meme!

Your mission for this weekend, if you choose to accept, is to do something for the person behind you in line at the checkout that they do not expect.

Some ideas:

• Give them $5 towards their grocery bill– I bet this would get quite the reaction!
• Buy them a candy bar– hey, if you didn’t last week!
• Offer them a tract
• Introduce yourself to them, get to know their name, where they are from, etc.
• Let them go ahead of you in line, even if they have more things.

The idea is to do something kind for someone that isn’t expecting it. Blog about it, and we’ll have a good time encouraging one another doing good things!

Of course, should you still want to participate but aren’t going shopping in the near future, you can still write about what has happened in your life in the past that you have been able to show kindness or kindness was shown to you! If you’re interested in this mission, or just participating, leave a comment and let us know which way you’re going to go!

View Weekend Kindness Entries as they Appear!

I earned a new title over the weekend: the candy fairy! Yeah, I was found out!

When my daughters failed to find their candy where I’d strategically placed it (beneath their pillows) on Sunday morning, I knew I had to be a bit more obvious! Still, after a long morning at church, and a visit to the grandparents, the cannisters of mini M&M’s weren’t discovered till about bedtime!

I’d written in wacky lettering: “May your words to each other always be as sweet as these treats!” My hope was that my act of “weekend kindness” would be a gift that keeps on giving! Kindness in our family relationships is the best kind, after all!

Two days later, the girls have finished divvying them up between their toddler sister and yes, me. (Aren’t they sweet to share?) Best of all, my oldest took the labeling to heart. I caught her apologizing to her younger sister this morning for being unkind while they cleaned up their room together.

To whom it may concern: I really did try to remain anonymous, but the two little stinkers badgered me into admitting my part in the matter.

Ah, well, it earned me several hugs and kisses more than my daily allotment!

Thanks for the idea, we all had fun with it!

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