It's not even 9am and I have managed to fit in two little acts of kindness. These were not part of my kindness plan for today and while they are very small, almost minuscule, I'm counting them.
Since kid # 2 has not taken a car to school yet, kid #3 has his choice of cars to drive in the morning. Typically, he drives the 14 year old Corolla, but when he is desperate enough (translation: low on gas), he will swallow his pride and drive the 13 year old minivan, proud mom bumper stickers and all. This requires some early morning car shuffling in the driveway. This morning I offered to help with that. It is not as if my neighbors have never seen me in my pajamas anyway.
After saying goodbye to the kiddos, I putzed around in the garage for a bit. While I was putzing, my across the street, not so friendly neighbor, came into his garage and sneezed. My initial reaction to a sneeze would be to say "God bless you", but instead I paused, just for a second. This is a neighbor who generally tries to avoid acknowledging my existence. Then my kindness experiment popped into my head, which I am realizing is also a sort of WWJD experiment. I said, "God bless you" and now as I head to my devotional time, I am going to work on really meaning it. Yup, that's what I'm gonna do.
Day three is off to a good start!
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