Kindness Eases the Pain of Saying Goodbye to a Father
My friend’s father-in-law recently died. It came on suddenly. It wasn’t supposed to happen that way. They weren’t prepared. I wonder, when it comes to losing someone we love, if we’re ever really prepared. The hole that’s left while we are mourning seems like an endless chasm, and yet it’s the perfect size for kindness.
Reclaiming Our Happy Place
I cut the head off a fish the other day. My fingers still smell kind of peculiar. I wouldn’t exactly call butchering a helpless, flopping fish my kindest act ever, but I had a good reason. We wanted to eat it. Last December, Saul and I bought a sad little lake cabin. It desperately wanted
Week 24 Memory Verse
I’ve never been described as a gentle person. At least not to my face, and I’m not sure that’s one of the words that comes up behind my back. Bold. Direct. Bossy. Brave. Maybe even energetic. But gentle? No. We are in the process of memorizing a weekly verse together. Actually it’s a paragraph I’m
Grass is Greener With Kindness
They say what goes around comes around. If you consistently treat others with kindness, you can expect to have a pretty big kindness bank account to draw from when life throws you a curveball. I’ve seen it happen again and again in my own life, and so has Mary Derosier from Red Lake Falls, Minn.,
I Was Wrong About Teenage Boys
Gosh. I’m a little ashamed of myself. I try to keep an open mind and greet others with love and kindness, but it’s been brought to my attention that I have a great big judgement sticker hanging out inside my head. I’m sure in some ways we all do, because we’re all raised with beliefs
Week 23 Memory Verse
Have you ever had deja vu? You immediately know you’ve heard those words before… but where? That happened to me when I stumbled upon this page: It’s from Philippians 4:4-9, in the New Testament. “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord
When We Talk, then Do, Kindness Becomes Contagious
Walt Disney once said, “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” That works well for amusement parks, but it also works well in the realm of kindness. Alicia Stewart is a mom who feels frustrated with the way girls sometimes treat each other. When she saw it happening in her
