My family and I met a friend at the theatre and to see a movie this past weekend. We were going straight from somewhere else and got to the theatre early, so we bought tickets for all of us so that we would not have to wait on line when it was time for the movie. (RAK #1)
We told our friend that we had gotten the tickets, yet she did not understand that we had gotten her ticket, too, so she bought her own ticket. When we figured out what had happened, our friend said that she could return the ticket that she bought. Then she reconsidered and decided to give it to someone else. She stood outside and waited for someone to arrive at the line who was going to see the same movie and gave them her ticket. (RAK #2)
When we went into the theatre, AmStar 14 Cinema in Mooresville had some fun games set up in the lobby for children to play and even had prizes and giveaways for the children to take home. They were not trying to sell anything. This was simply something kind that they were doing for the children. (RAK #3)
Sometimes you have the opportunity to give and receive random kindness without putting much thought into it or without even realizing it. Neat, right?
Your challenge today is to see an opportunity to perform a spur of the moment act of kindness and then come back here and leave a comment to tell us all what it was. Maybe your experiences will give ideas to others!
I am a homeschool momma on a budget, so I have joined several fb groups to buy used curriculum. One of the group's has a blog and is giving away a $200 amazon gift card to a needy homeachool family for Christmas. Pretty awesome right! So to be in the running you fill out this form and get people to nominate you and then a panel of judges will decide the winner, you can even nominate yourself. So at first, I was like, awesome!! I need this. Money is tight and I have only bought one present so far. I have three kids, you do the math, lol. And then I started to think. What if I nominated someone else. So I have this friend who is really having a hard time right now. Lots of health issues, husband works two jobs and they still struggle, two beautiful girls with hearts of gold, yeah, you see where this is going.....I nominated her, but shhh, it's a secret :) In the Bible, God teaches us that we are only truly giving when we give out of our necessity. And He promises to bless this kind of giving. You can't outlive God. I'm sure God will take care of putting presents under my tree this year for my guys, because this friend of mine needs that gift card way more than I do <3 I really hope and pray she gets it.
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DeleteToday my RAK was extremely SIMPLE. It was a rainy, gloomy day ... and my mood was right there with the weather. I was at a intersection where I had the right of way & another car had been sitting at the stop sign for some time (several cars). I decided to stop (people behind me didn't like that), and let them go ahead of me Again ... nothing extra special ... just common courtesy really. Sadly common courtesy has faded a lot in our society! Here's to trying to bring it back ... one RAK at a time!
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