Random acts of kindness
Dec. 22nd, 2009 09:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deborahjrossOne of my favorite children's books is Because Brian Hugged His Mother by David L. Rice.
Publisher's blurb: A simple act of kindness may go further than you think. Brian hugged his Mom one morning. No special reason. Just because. Brian's hug set in motion a series of unselfish acts that reached more people — and even animals — than he could ever know. This is a story that happens every day, with endless variation, among good-hearted people everywhere.
I think of all the times someone has reached out to me, and the far fewer times I have been able to do the same. How little it costs to be kind and how rich the rewards, even those I never know about.
Or perhaps, especially those I never know about. In that sense, kindness is an ongoing act of faith. It's a living statement of hope, a practice of connectedness, of interdependence, of passing on the gift.
Publisher's blurb: A simple act of kindness may go further than you think. Brian hugged his Mom one morning. No special reason. Just because. Brian's hug set in motion a series of unselfish acts that reached more people — and even animals — than he could ever know. This is a story that happens every day, with endless variation, among good-hearted people everywhere.
I think of all the times someone has reached out to me, and the far fewer times I have been able to do the same. How little it costs to be kind and how rich the rewards, even those I never know about.
Or perhaps, especially those I never know about. In that sense, kindness is an ongoing act of faith. It's a living statement of hope, a practice of connectedness, of interdependence, of passing on the gift.
