Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

So, a funny thing happened on the way back from my brother’s wedding. I was driving along after a fierce thunderstorm when I came upon a toll booth. It was one where you insert change into a bucket or use a coin changer. The car in front of me opens the door to pay with cash and I see something fall out of it. I thought it was a flip flop.

As I advance into the toll booth, I open the door, and sure enough it was the man’s wallet. What do I do?!

I hand the wallet back to my wife and take off after the guy. (Fortunately he was going the same way I was!) We lose him around a corner, but I’m pretty sure that I recognize his car up ahead. I catch up and go to pass him and my wife compares the picture on his license to the guy in the car. We roll down the window, beep the horn, and get him to pull over.

I get out, return the wallet, and am on my way.

What would you have done?

One day in the store I noticed that you can buy all kinds of post-it notes.  One set of post-it notes was pink and in the shape of a heart.  That gave me an idea.  I picked up a pack, and hid them for future use.

The next time that my wife was away, I wrote messages on the hearts and hid them in various locations throughout the house.  Some easy to find, some not so easy.  That way, when she came home, and for days after that, as she found the notes she could be reminded of the fact that I was thinking of her.

Has she found them all?  Not yet.  I believe there’s still one that she hasn’t found!

You can try this at home, and you don’t even need sticky notes– even a piece of paper and scotch tape will do!

Actions speak louder than words goes the familiar expression. One of the problems with our lifestyles today is that we have many more things wanting our attention and time than in the past. So, there are things that we say we will do with all intentions of doing them, but it takes a long time to get to them– or we forget totally.

So, one way to show kindness this week is to choose and complete a project that you?ve been putting off, something that someone else will appreciate (like sewing a button on, or mending jeans?etc). By doing this you’ll be showing that person that they are important, and you’ll be getting to fulfill your promise to them all at the same time!