Kindness

 Many years ago an acquaintance shared her personal challenge of celebrating the twelve days of kindness to start December.  

At the time she was a new mom of quintuplets and was struggling with how to find time for meaningful holiday service.  Because giving life to and keeping five infants alive isn't enough, right??!!  But I understood that she was saying she was struggling with not being able to complete some of her traditional holiday service activities.  

So she made an effort to show intentional small kindnesses in the name of Jesus every day. 

Over the years I have taken the tradition and morphed it into a tradition of my own.  Part of that is for me to find and highlight the kindnesses done by others.

This week we had a special needs kindergarten student who had been out for two weeks. 

In a quiet and unassuming way (we only know because his mom told us) we found out that his teacher stopped by the house  and dropped off a little toy car.   She simply said that she was guessing after all that time it was probably time for a new toy to make it a little easier.  

What a sweet lady.  What a big heart. 

"The heart is the key to our influence, for it counts and measures each kindness, each effort, each time we lift, praise, teach, or cheer one another." (Elaine L Jack)

Kindness.  An attribute of Christ.