LKN RAK Give Back

Lake Norman RAKs invites you-  Nay.  LKN RAKS challenges you to join us for a day of random acts of kindness!  As you prepare for Christmas, or as you are celebrating Hanukkah, you are encouraged to take some moments to give back to your community by "doing kindness" for others.  Your acts can be random or deliberate.  You can plan ahead for ways that you can show kindness to others,  or you can look for opportunities throughout your day.  You can even do both!

Now here is the BIG challenge.  The more people who join us for this event, the easier it will be to succeed.  Our mission, should you choose to be a part of it, is to perform 1,000 Acts of Kindness on December 21st, 2014. 

Are you in?  100 people would make it an average of ten RAKs per person.  200 people would lower the average to five RAKs per person.  500 people would give us an average of only two random acts of kindness per person.  Invite your friends, and let us make this thing happen all over Lake Norman...or wherever you are!

#lknraks

#rakgiveback

#1000rakson1221

Join us at https://www.facebook.com/events/362548340572903/

Hmm...speaking of acts of kindness, would anybody like to do the kind task of coming up with a logo for this event?  Maybe we can even have a contest if more than one person is interested.  What do you think?

We Gave You Fair Warning

If you have been reading LKN RAKs' blog posts for the past few days, you know that at the end of each post, we have encouraged you to comment because we probably had something up our sleeve...and we do!

The idea was to do a drawing and choose someone to receive a RAK in the mail. Sooo...all of the names have been gathered. We have Kelly, Kelly, Kelly, aaand Kelly. Do you know what? I am not going to bother with the drawing. I will choose who I think should win, and if the other entrants have a problem with that, then they can take it up with...Kelly. Hehe.

Gifted By

Kathy Miranda

Jordan Essentials

www.myjestore.com/Kathy

www.fb.com/PamperingForAPurpose

For everyone who is not Kelly, this Lotion Bar from Jordan Essentials is more than you might imagine, so maybe you will consider getting a few for stocking stuffers or teacher gifts or a little something for someone who is on your mind.

Kathy, thank you for the deliberate act of kindness in giving a Lotion Bar for Kelly to enjoy.  Kelly, thank you for being the person to comment every day and help us get this new blog growing. Everyone else, now is a good time to start. <wink>

Welcome to LKN RAKs: Part 3

Recently (read: for the last few months), I have been feeling a pull to put the LKN RAKs web site back up.  Finally, I decided to go for it, and my husband, being the super kind guy that he is, supported me.  

Lake Norman RAKs, or LKN RAKs for short, needed to be revived.  However, with support from other areas and with the internet making everyone seem so much more local, I did not want to exclude anybody simply because they did not live here in the area.  Thus, while LKN RAKs officially is Lake Norman RAKs, we will unofficially be know as LKN RAKs because Lots of Kindness is Necessary in this life.  

With that being said, we will focus on this area, yet we invite anyone from anywhere to comment, to share your act of kindness (actually, we would love that), and to contribute to and be encouraged by the positivity that we hope will fill the pages here.  Now...get out there and do some kindness...and then come back here and share it with us!

Tomorrow, as part of our relaunch, we will start a month of challenges, games, and more and look forward to your participation.  Oh, yeah, and we will reveal our sneaky surprise after you all comment today.  That is right; your curiosity will have to wait just a liiiitle bit longer.  

Happy Thanks Giving

Many of us are gathering today to give thanks for so much of what we have in this life and to enjoy the blessings and bounty of a warm home and sharing of food.

While you are with folks today, or even if you are not, what are some ways that you can take a moment to give thanks to someone for something that they might not even realize is or was meaningful to you?  

When you take a moment to appreciate them, you will be performing an act of unexpected kindness that may make someone smile inside in a way that adds an extra bit of joy to their Thanksiving.  Who are you going to thank?

Welcome to LKN RAKs: Part 2

After we were at our new home and in the Lake Norman area for some time and feeling a bit settled, we thought that the Lowcountry RAKs web site was such a joy and growing so well in South Carolina that maybe we could create the same kind of "home" for good on the web in North Carolina.  

After all, we were still seeing the sad news and the bad news portrayed all over the various news outlets, and sometimes people simply need to be reminded of all of the goodness and beauty that really is all around us.  We hoped that Lake Norman RAKs could help be that reminder.

We had some great support from local newspapers like The Charlotte Observer and Mooresville Tribune.  We even had support and encouragement from people who lived in a completely different state and saw the articles about Lake Norman RAKs picked up by their local newspaper!  How neat is that?

An article that someone mailed us from their newspaper in Alabama:

Alas, life happens, and the Lake Norman RAKs web site was put to the side.  HOWEVER...it is time for the phoenix to rise, so come back tomorrow for the conclusion to this trilogy and to see where LKN RAKs will be going next!

Be sure to keep posting your comments because...well...because.  Hehe.

Welcome to LKN RAKs: Part 1

What a treat it is to have you here as we relaunch an old concept.  Thank you for joining us!  You may be wondering, "What is a RAK, and what does it have to do with the Lake Norman area -- or any area?"  We are here to tell you!

RAK is an acronym used for Random Acts of Kindness. Often, this expression is used for just what is sounds like:  when someone performs an act of kindness for seemingly no reason. Here at Lake Norman RAKs, though, we choose to expand that idea to include any and every good thing. Whether an act of kindness is something that one person does for another, something that someone does for an animal, or whether it is a gift that God gives in that moment that seems so randomly perfect...whatever it is, a kindness act can be wonderful, make someone happy, and sometimes even completely make their day. 

With that in mind, we decided back in 2008 to create a web site as a sort of "home" for the good news, the kind deeds, the happy things that were happening all around us in the Lowcountry, which was where we lived at the time.  The web site was off to a good start, and then we moved to the Lake Norman area and let it go.

Read the article that Bluffton Today ran:

Of course, the story does not end there, or we would not be here talking about it, would we?  Please check back tomorrow for the next part of this story.  Meanwhile, be sure to post a comment today on this blog entry because we may just have some act of kindness up our sleeves.  (We do!)