Kindness rewrites people’s stories

We never really know what someone’s going through, do we? The clerk at the grocery store who stands on her feet all day and then goes home to take care of an ailing parent. The teacher who pours lessons of kindness and sharing into beautiful little hearts and then realizes she’s been sharing her husband

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What to do when they drive you nuts

If you spend any time giving thanks with other people this week, you’re going to run into a lot of things that make you feel less than thankful. For instance, you create this fabulous dinner and then all the small children in the room ask if they can have chicken nuggets. Or maybe one member

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The perfect love story is always filled with kindness

I’m a sucker for a Hallmark movie. Love is in the air when the owner of a small-town bakery falls for the big-city developer who intends to shut her down, but then has a change of heart and sweeps in to save the building from demolition. Somebody hand me a bucket of popcorn and a

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Scared of the Season? Try this.

Every morning I patter out to the living room to turn on the tree. It’s on a timer along with the garland and lights wrapping the staircase railing. In the evening, they light up on their own, but in the morning, when it’s still dark and I’m still sleepy and not quite sure if the

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Kids aim for 5000 acts of kindness in 15 days

What if I told you there is a group of people who are going to accomplish 5,000 acts of kindness in just 15 days? Think it can be done? What if I told you most of those people still live in their parents’ houses? And don’t have jobs? And wear “PAW Patrol” pajamas each night?

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Live Loved

You know those days when you wake up feeling just okay? Not great. Not terrible. Just okay. When someone asks you how you’re doing, your face cracks into a pleasant smile before responding, “Fine.” I have a secret. God doesn’t want you to go through the day feeling just okay. He wants to wow you

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Kindness lights up the space around us

Have you ever seen kindness ripple through a room? It happened just the other day in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Edith Sanford Breast Center put on an amazing conference for survivors and I got to talk about using kindness during a cancer journey. When I finished speaking, the emcee took the mic and told the

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