Spread A Little Kindness

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92-year-old Nancy Letham usually receives only four cards around the holidays as her friends have gotten older and died.

After an online appeal was posted late this October, though, Nancy has received around 50 cards a day, including from schoolchildren in Portugal, who drew pictures for her.

Nancy’s granddaughter Leo Sheppard posted the appeal, expecting to receive around 40 cards from neighbors in Fife, Scotland where the family live.

Now cards are coming in from India and the States, from Canada and Australia and Italy and Spain.

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Matthew: There is very little any of us really understand. What we think we understand tends to fall short in the progressive unfolding of our God.

You will note the O.P. = Spread a little kindness.

 

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New 92-year-old Nancy Letham usually receives only four cards around the holidays as her friends have gotten older and died.

Lucky Nancy, she gets more than I get

But I am very fortunate, so no cards is fine

Very true, that being kind works miracle. Nice short video you shared. Thanks.

 

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“The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. ” -Goldie Hawn

 

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A Kentucky-based nonprofit born as a result of the coronavirus pandemic is hand-delivering groceries and other essential items to community members who otherwise can't get to a food pantry.

Maria Accardi and Constance Merritt created Bringing Justice Home last year after recognizing that food pantries were hit hard by the pandemic, losing both supplies and needed volunteers.

They began delivering groceries and other essentials to people experiencing poverty and food insecurity as well as those with chronic health conditions who were unable to leave their homes due to the virus.

It was never just about delivering groceries.

"A much bigger company like Amazon could deliver food boxes to a lot more people than we ever will, but we're really trying to build a community where people look out for each other and share resources, outcomes and dreams."

By facilitating access to critical goods with the help of community members, the duo hopes to create a community, if not a world or a country where everybody has what he or she needs to live a healthy life.

Merritt and Accardi partnered with numerous local organizations that could help point them to people in need. In one instance, Merritt recalls a woman who had cancer and her oncologist talked to a social worker and said she was not eating what she needed.

By August, the duo, equipped with donations from people in the community, made their way to a local grocery store and embarked on their first delivery.

Since then, they have been receiving droves of donations, helping them to feed dozens of what Merritt and Accardi call their "neighbors."

 

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"Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people." -Dennis Prager

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." -Saint Basil

"Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ."

 

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"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." ~ Audrey Hepburn

"Together we can change the world, just one random act of kindness at a time." - Ron Hall

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." ~ Dalai Lama

 

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The Power of Spreading Kindness

The current pandemic has given many of us a chance to reflect on life and how we engage with others. Seeing communities come together to support each other and spreading kindness brings an enormous sense of belonging and emotional reward....Spreading kindness starts with positive actions. Small gestures that have a ripple effect can develop empathy and unite people. And the best thing is that kindness is free!

Even if you feel you have nothing to give, we all have the power to make someone happy.

The Power Of Spreading Kindness

 

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Video has emerged showing a man -- identified as Jim Finch -- setting up a grill in the middle of Mayfield, Kentucky, to prepare food for locals who have been impacted by the tornado that ravaged the town on Friday.

"I just figured I'd do what I can do -- show up with some food and some water," Finch is heard saying on video as debris and rubble can be seen in the background.

Finch traveled an hour and a half to get to Mayfield

 

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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind. ~Neil Gaiman

 

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Bethel Park High School head football coach

Brian DeLallo wrote: "Due to expected severe weather, Monday’s weightlifting workout has been cancelled. Find an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel their driveway. Don’t accept any money - that’s our Monday workout."

DeLallo said that having the football team shovel people’s driveways is something that his predecessor, former head coach Jeff Metheny, started the tradition more 20 years ago.

Bethel Park High School football players David Shelpman, 16, and Aidan Campbell, 17, were among about 40 athletes who shoveled snow on Monday, according to DeLallo.

Campbell shoveled four driveways with Shelpman, who did another two driveways on his own. Shelpman shoveled for about seven hours, while Campbell shoveled for about five.

Once he was done shoveling driveways, Shelpman said he and his mom volunteered at a spaghetti dinner for homeless veterans.

The football players didn’t just shovel driveways on Monday. They also shoveled more driveways together on Tuesday.

 

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Brian DeLallo wrote: "Due to expected severe weather, Monday’s weightlifting workout has been cancelled. Find an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel their driveway. Don’t accept any money - that’s our Monday workout."

IMHO, Coach Brain DeLallo is a person worth his weight in gold.

Let the rich satisfy the poor implorer, and bend his eye upon a longer pathway,
Riches come now to one, now to another, and like the wheels of cars are ever rolling,
The foolish man wins food with fruitless labour: that food – I speak the truth – shall be his ruin,
He feeds no trusty friend, no man to love him. All guilt is he who eats with no partaker.
Rigveda, X.117

Learn three cardinal virtues - self restraint, charity and compassion for all life.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, V.ii.3

An assurance unto all creatures with love and affection and abstention from every kind of injury, acts of kindness and favor done to a person in distress, whatever gifts are made without the giver's ever thinking of them as gifts made by him, constitute, O chief of Bharata's race, the highest and best of gifts (dāna).
The Mahabharata, XIII.59

Dāna - Wikipedia

 

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Dāna is also used to refer to rituals. For example, in a Hindu wedding, kanyādāna (कन्यादान) refers to the ritual where a father gives his daughter's hand in marriage to the groom, after asking the groom to promise that he will never fail in his pursuit of dharma (moral and lawful life), artha (wealth) and kama (desire). The groom promises to the bride's father, and repeats his promise three times in presence of all gathered as witness.

Other types of charity includes donating means of economic activity and food source. For example, godāna (donation of a cow), bhudāna (donation of land), and vidyādāna (sharing knowledge and teaching skills), aushadhādāna (charity of care for the sick and diseased), abhayadāna (giving freedom from fear - asylum, protection to someone facing imminent injury), and anna dāna (giving food to the poor, needy and all visitors).

Dāna - Wikipedia