This week’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: The next time you buy something, say “Thank you!” like you mean it to the cashier and smile. Buy a lottery ticket for a stranger. Find someone who has been helpful to you this week in a store, restaurant or other business establishment and tell that person’s [...]

This week’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Contribute some food you love to a food pantry. Lynn’s post on food donations really hit me where I needed to be jostled, and now I am sure to only give food we love. Bring your neighbor’s trash cans up to the house after the trash service. [...]

This week’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Give four compliments today: two to people you know, two to people you don’t know. Let someone else go first… in the check-out line, in a doorway, down the parking lot aisle (and risk giving up a better spot) Write a thank you note to a store [...]

This week’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Plan a family act of kindness to do at some point over the next 4 weeks. Make sandwiches and deliver them to homeless people. Volunteer for an afternoon in a food pantry. Join in on a service project your church is doing. Write the date on your [...]

I hope you are having a lot of fun with Operation Intentional #Kindness. I’ve noticed that not only have I been more intenional in showing kindness, but I’ve also appreciated it even more when others have shown me kindness, too, in both big and little ways. Last week a gentleman stood in the rain to [...]