Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

Back in May when we visited the Creation Museum, we picked up at their bookstore a book on teaching children how to handle money.  As we read through it, we were told that we should use multiple jars to keep track of what we needed to give, spend and save.

So we did that.

But it was convicting, encouraging and it caused us to think more about what we give and why.

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In the above cartoon, Thor gets into trouble because of deception.  The lesson to be learned is that you should be honest with those you deal with.  Honesty is kindness because it’s telling the person that you respect them enough to deal truthfully with them.

The amazing thing about a lie is that you usually have to tell more to keep the first one going, and they eventually are found out—if not now, sometime in the future.

Best to tell the truth!

Mike Bright sent me an e-mail the other day, telling me about a great  site that he runs that I’d thought I’d share with you:

I run a website called ‘Help From Home‘ which provides information on easy, no commitment volunteering opportunities that can all be performed from the comfort of a person’s home. Almost all of the 450 plus actions listed on the site will cost nothing or very little to complete and take no more than 30 minutes to accomplish. Some can even be performed in under 10 seconds without getting out of your favourite chair or pyjamas!

I run it on a purely altruistic basis and what I’m attempting to do is to encourage people to see that volunteering for worthy causes can actually be conducted from within their own house, rather than the more traditional approach of joining a group of people at a certain place and a certain time to participate in actions that benefit others.

Most of us spend a lot of time in our own home. and if people were able to donate between 10 to 30 minutes of this home time to such endeavours on a one-off, daily, weekly or monthly basis, just think how much of an impact collectively it could potentially make into the goals and aims of initiatives that are attempting to create ta better world for us to live in.

In closing then, I believe the opportunities listed on the website really can spread kindness and if you do visit the website, I’m hoping you’ll be able to see what good there is that can be done ….. dressed just in your pyjamas!

Regards

Mike Bright

It looks like a great idea, and it’s something worth checking out!

For as long as I can remember I’ve had a thing for collecting tshirts.  Some people collect useless trinkets or novelties from places that they visit—I collect a tshirt.  Even when I grew up at went to college, I had to get embroidered shirts or tshirts for my college, and then I actually purchased a few shirts from my place of employment.

I’m not sure whether it’s the novelty, whether it’s the sense of belonging, or whether it’s part of an identity, but I like having things shirts that are recognize me as part of a group.

I’ve even toyed with the idea, multiple times, of having some kind of custom tshirt or polo shirt made for people that write on my blogs!

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I’m very excited to announce our first giveaway over at Is This Modest: The Blush Undershirt Giveaway!

This giveaway is sponsored by Blush Topless Undershirts, and they are a unique brand of clothing that is designed to be worn under clothing to help make the more modest!

They’re a pretty unique article of clothing, and I encourage you to go on over and enter the contest.  If we can get 150 entries, then the people at Blush will throw in two winners instead of one.

So why are you still here—go over to the Blush Undershirt Giveaway and sign up!

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When I was young, my parents had a peninsula on their counter that had three counter stools that  stood in front of it.  Many of the days when we were home my mom would feed us lunch at these stools—and I still have fond memories of Flintstone vitamins and chicken noodle soup.

Those stools allowed us to watch my mom make lunch, and  brought us eye-level with her as we talked about what was going on that day.

Of course, some of my siblings don’t have such fond memories of their experience with a bar stool.  One of my brothers ended up tipping backwards and getting hurt—but that’s another story.

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I grew up in a home with two bathrooms.  There was “dad’s” bathroom and there was everyone else’s bathroom.  And there was only one tub.  Of course, dad’s bathroom was rarely just his, it just had that name, but I digress.

In both places that I’ve lived since I’ve been married we’ve had only one bathroom—and it is an exercise in kindness for five people to share one bathroom.  Kindness in taking turns, in not flushing the toilet when someone’s in the shower, etc.

In the new house that we’ve put an offer on, there are two bathrooms—and this dad might get to share a bathroom with his wife!

What kind of bathroom situation do you find yourself in?

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