. I used to work for a printing company and when I’d walk through the plant to my office, I’d greet the “ink” lady. She had bottles of different colored inks behind her on the shelf. I told her she was lucky because she got to work with a rainbow every day. One day during…
. I have recently become a volunteer at Ronald McDonald Houses here in Central Florida. Having three teenagers, it’s become increasingly important to me to expose them to opportunities to give back through various acts of kindness. I have been purposefully doing things independent of them, and because it has now become inherent in me,…
. I was in Walmart, tired and hurting, and had just checked out and was heading for the door. There was a woman who had also just checked out at a register closer to the door. She looked like I felt! She pulled her cart over and got her keys out of her purse. Our…
. My mother-in-law freaked out today when I got us lost in an area that is not really very safe. I was pretty sure I was going in the direction I needed, I just had to go further than I thought. So at the next light, I pulled up beside the next car and rolled…
. I observed an elderly lady with a walker trying to cross a street. She was aware that traffic was waiting on her so she was trying to hurry. A passenger in one of the waiting vehicles got out and asked if she could escort the women across the road. The lady was so pleased…
. Sometimes I feel like I practically live at the grocery store. I was at the deli counter AGAIN and joking with the guys behind the counter about how often I’m there, and I feel a small body snuggle itself to my side and arms go around my waist. I knew immediately someone mistook me…
. A lady was walking by my house recently on the street as the snow plows had not cleared the side walks… we are having a terrible snowy/cold longer than normal winter… she was walking on a busy street by my house. I decided to pull over and ask her if I could offer her…
. This morning I went to breakfast with my daughter after she finished her 9 mile run in preparation for a half marathon in the coming months. As we were leaving, a man was approaching in a manual wheelchair, his wife walking behind him. As I seen him, I opened the door and stood waiting…
. A couple of years ago, I moved across the country with my family. I was lonely and didn’t know anyone. My husband brought a friend home for dinner one night – he was a homeless man who was friends with my husband’s mom. He lived in a tent on someone else’s property and worked…
. My Mom and Dad were moving back from South Texas and met a family along the way. The man had lost his job and they were moving somewhere also. They needed a bed. My parents took one of the beds out of their trailer and gave it to them. At the time I was…
Several weeks ago, I was contacted by Crista who had recently lost a treasured friend. She told me how amazing her friend was and how she’d found love late in life with her best friend Chris. K.B. and Chris had only been married a short time when K.B. passed away, but the thing that he…
. We raised the money to pay for a family with two young carers to go out for dinner on boxing day. When I got the privilege to tell the mum, she burst into tears as she was so touched by our kindness. In the space of a year her family had gone through a…