Everyday Kindness

Ok, we are playing computer-go-round at our house. (It’s a very long and quite boring story.) That said, I won’t be able to get around today.
But will as soon as….
Yeah.
It’s like that.
I’m still here - still plugging away with my everyday kindness commitment…
Just not really online yet.

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The last four or five days, I’ve been in this odd position: A lot of people have asked for or needed my assistance.  I’m not talking about small acts of kindness.  I mean, people at our house for dinner, friends who need writing advice, long conversations about people’s woes, and so on.
Of course, I’m delighted [...]

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I am amazed.  Our little group has already completed more than <b>350</b> acts of kindness this year.  That’s almost as many as one person could do for a year.  Wow.  (Standing ovation)
While continuing to make their daily commitment, we have a few people who probably won’t let us know what they are doing.  That’s absolutely [...]

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“The truth is the kindest thing you can give folks in the end”
Harriot Beecher Stowe (1881 - 1896)
That’s the quote that was on my teabag this morning.  The truth.  I wonder how many times I’ve been too afraid to say the truth for fear of hurting someone’s feelings.
I’d never thought of the truth as kind.
As [...]

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Yesterday I was able to do tiny gestures.  I gave an elderly couple my parking space.  I let people cut in line.  I didn’t swear at the person who cut me off. I even helped an upset friend in trouble.
Then came today.  A nasty comment on my MySpace page and I’m grumbling.  The kindest thing [...]

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In the last couple of days (day 14 & 15), I’ve wondered how to do an act of kindness when I feel heart sick.  While I know that there are a lot of other bigger problems in the world, right at this moment, my own problems have me feeling very sad.
This too shall pass.
Yesterday was [...]

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As usual for me, I’ve gotten a little big in my thinking. I want to fix everything right this very minute or yesterday. Pathetic, isn’t it? Sigh.
Last week, I spent most of my kindness acts praying for people. But then that’s not enough. So I have to then be a prayer [...]

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Friday I continued my prayer project.  It was another writing day.
I focused on not only sending a prayer to people I came in contact with but trying to be a prayer to those people.  What I mean is that I focused on saying kind things in my blog comments, my emails, and on the telephone.
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Yesterday, my goal was to say a small prayer to everyone I came in contact with throughout the day.  It was a writing day, so I mostly interacted by email and blogs.
I found the experience amazing.  Sometimes I was resistant.  I didn’t want to say a prayer for that person.  Sometimes I was joyous.  A [...]

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My goal for today was to smile at every person, even when I didn’t feel like it.  I made it about 90%.  I managed to thank people for their assistance.
And it wasn’t always easy.  Sometimes, with some people, smiling was hard.
Just a smile to every person I saw today.  That was my act of kindness.
I [...]

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