A simple act of kindness....

Just about everybody has a story to tell about the snow we got last night in Cincinnati. Most don’t like it and wish we would never get snow. Personally I love it. I can’t say I like diving in it or cleaning up after it is my favorite thing to do. But with patience and the right equipment, even that isn’t bad.

I look at the snow as a work of God. Who else could cover the entire area we view with such beauty. Not only is it beautiful to look at, it tends to bring out the beauty in people.

Yesterday I watch several people have panic attacks caused by worrying about how they were going to get home? The conditions of their cars and how hard it was going to be to drive in the snow; how long it would take them to get home; who will be there to greet their children if they couldn’t get home in a timely manner, You get the idea. Reaching out to our fellow co-worker was the only soothing medicine for the situation.

And many did. I witnessed people working together, cleaning off each others cars, offering rides, working late so their co-worker could get home to their children.. Even the bosses were a more visible support.

On the way home, I witnesses people pushing cars that were stuck, assisting people walking, And even later, calling to check on family member to see if they need help digging out or if they got home safely. It’s often easy to be kind with family. Not so with strangers.

Somewhere in this day and age we have lost the simple act of kindness. It’s too bad we have to have a major snow storm, and auto accident or a calamity for people to trust enough in each other to reach out to help and just be neighborly. The world we live in has caused us to lose trust in people and that’s too bad.

One of the things I want to do in this new year is to reach out more to others in need. Some people think reaching out means digging into our wallets. And maybe that is true sometimes. However there is a lot more to it than that... Small acts of kindness done by many people could make incredible changes in our world, especially in our children.

Our children are our future. We need to find a way to spread some of that kindness and caring on an everyday basis. We need to find a way to get some of the guns off the streets and put a lid one the use of the drugs available to our young people, and find a way for them to end this war. Whatever happened to their role models?

Okay, so I know I have gotten way off the subject here, or maybe not. Kindness needs to start with the older generation. A good role model can put a child back on the right track. The young families are much needier than the older generation use to be in a different sorta way. Trust and being kind are real issues.

Let’s not forget to reach out to the young families. Offer to take them to church with you. Help them find ways to build trust in something other than the guns and drugs.

When do we as a society come together with that act of kindness? What are you doing?