"Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love." Martin Luther King, Jr.
I invite you to drop by Marie's journal and read her entry today, called Random Acts of Kindness.
One should start the day on the right foot after reading this entry. Anyone can do this, any day... acts of kindness ... and serving others.
When I see trash laying around, I pick it up. Even if it is in the store parking lot, and I'm on my way into the store, if there is trash on the ground, I will pick it up and put it in the trash can. When people don't return their shopping carts properly, I will push them into the cart corral so they don't stick out into the driving aisle. I turn the laminator on first thing in the morning, even when I'm not planning on using it because I know a teacher will probably come rushing in and hope that it is on (it's happened to me many times). I buy breakfast for a teacher unannounced on a random day. When book companies show their wares in our school, I buy books for the younger teachers, the ones who start out with little or nothing, to help stock up their personal bookshelves.
Acts of kindness are easy to fit into one's life.
Do you do random acts of kindness? Do you fit serving others into your day? How do you do this... please leave a comment.
Thanks!!!
10 comments:
Hi Bea,
I will read Marie's entry after this. For me, I just try to help where I can. Sometimes it is just a phone call, a moment of your time to listen, a cup of tea made for a friend, a lift to school for a neighbour's child, little inconsequential things.
Nice entry,
Kate.
http://journals.aol.co.uk/bobandkate/AnAnalysisofLife/
All these little things, as inconsequential as they might seem add up! Thanks so much Bea for mentioning me in your blog! That in itself is an act of kindness that is very much appreciated!
Cheers!
Marie
http://journals.aol.co.uk/mariealicejoan/MariesMuses/
Ohhh hot cocoa... I could use some right now!!!
Acts of kindness... I try to be my best all the time. Stopping to get coffee for co-workers... springing for lunch. Helping folks cross the street....
No doubt could do more.
hugs
d
Last year, I was at the grocery store and I saw a woman trying to reach for some product on a high shelf. She had one of those "grab it" things, but was still having a hard time. Since she was about 5 feet tall and I'm 5'8, I just instinctively asked if I could reach something for her. She thanked me, but said she could do it; by that time, her grab it helper finally reached what she wanted.
I forgot to say, I do the grocery cart thing too. It drives me crazy when I see people just leaving them anywhere after they've loaded their car.
Great entry!!!! really made me think about my actions yeasterday and my nasty thoughts!!!! still trying to sort them out in my head!
Becky
I try to be kind because it makes me feel better. I sometimes wonder if kindness counts as much when it benefits the doer as much if not more than the recipient! For some reason, people often ask me for help and I always try to oblige. Yesterday I was in the grocery story when an older woman approached me and asked if I knew where the crackers were. It was a store that I shop in regularly, so I escorted her to the appropriate aisle and then we had a lovely chat for a few minutes during which I found out that she was new to the neighborhood, having just moved from Atlanta to raleigh to be closer to her children.--Sheria
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Hmm... I've never thought about it, but I guess I do. I offer to give elderly people who are walking home, a ride, and then I halp them to their door. I let people with fewer groceries than I have in my cart go ahead of me in the line. I bring my sister in law a bouquet of fresh flowers every friday because I know she likes them. I take my daughter lunch and drop it off at her work, when she least expects it.
I'm sure there are other things, but I can't think of them now..
Hugs
jackie
dearest Bea,
we do lots of work in the community....
random acts usually include the neighbor or someone whose car is stopped,etc.
Sometimes it is helping another student ..I don't keep arunning count of these because I think that it is required of us and it should eb assumed as part of us...
hugs,nat
Sometimes even the smallest act can totally change the course of someone's day. It's amazing ! Imagine a world where everyone did at least one random act of kindness every day. Hmmmmm I think it would be a much different place for all of us. Thanks for the reminder, Linda in Washington state
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