Category: From my Journal

This month’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Every time you buy something this month, 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 month in a store, restaurant or other business establishment and tell that…

This month’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 month’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 month’s assignments for Operation Intentional #Kindness are: Plan a family act of kindness to do this month. 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 calendar and make it happen. Read…

I hope you are having a lot of fun with Operation Intentional #Kindness. I’ve noticed that not only have I been more intentional 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…

Want to help me spread more joy and kindness this year? Random acts of kindness are awesome, but what if we could be intentional about these acts of kindness, and not let a week (or day) go by when we didn’t share some joy with those around us with kind gestures? Robyn, a friend of…