Random Acts of Kindness

While I was surfing the web the other day I stumbled across an idea that has been going around the internet. 26 random acts of kindness. One for each other people who were killed in the tragedy in CT last week. (Though personally I think there are 27 because you need to count his mother.) This gave me reason to believe that there is SO much good in the world, if we only do things for other people out of love. We have tried, as a family, to do things for other people, but we don't do it nearly as much as we should. Seeing this facebook page, and idea brought about by Ann Curry, really was a push I needed to do more things. Please take a moment to go to this page (http://www.facebook.com/26acts?ref=stream) and like it. I also encourage each and everyone to do something for someone else today. No benefit or reward for yourself. Even something without any recognition to yourself is good.

Here is the progress we have made:

1) Bought coffee for the person in line behind me at Starbucks
2) Brought a dozen donuts, a gallon of milk, a gallon of OJ, cups and napkins (so they don't have to clean up after themselves) to the local fire department.
3) Brought the same stuff to the local police department
4) Brought the same stuff to the office staff and Brayden's school
5) Put a treat and a thank you card in our mailbox for our mailman
6) Pulled out the garbage for a lot of houses on our street (tomorrow is garbage day) so they wouldn't have to do it in the freezing cold temps we got going on.

I have many more ideas (mostly from searching the internet) that we plan on doing for people.

Please consider doing something for someone today. It can be something as simple as holding the door for someone, or wishing someone a Merry Christmas.

God bless each of you.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.