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Friday, June 20, 2014

Act of Kindness – Week #6!!


"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention!"

*The act of kindness this week…show kindness by finding a food item that has been in your pantry for a while and use it to brighten a stranger’s day!!

     It is pretty safe to say that the majority of our homes have several non refrigerated items sitting in our pantries or cabinets that were bought a while ago but have not been ate yet! It could be because we have the intention of eating it soon, or the items were on sale so we bought several or sometimes simply because we were grocery shopping without a list and ended up buying items in case we did not have them at home. The act of kindness this week encourages us to intentionally look at what we have sitting in the back of our pantries and think of a way to use them to show kindness to a stranger!

     An example: I believe that it is once a year that the Boy Scouts in our area put a plastic bag on the front door of our home and on the pickup date you are to put the plastic bag outside with canned goods inside. My Husband and I have gone to the grocery store and bought some cans for this before but the majority of the time we just go to the back of our pantry and find several canned goods that were bought a while ago and have not been used! This act of kindness totals less than $10 of canned goods. Once a year while doing this food drive, we are teaming up with other people’s kindness and giving to result in feeding countless strangers and brightening their day!
   
*My experience with the act of kindness…When I say a “food item in your pantry”, most people will instantly think canned goods, but I used POPCORN! You know...the bags of un-popped popcorn that come in a box that you like to buy at the grocery store (usually the “movie theater butter” kind or the “low fat” kind that you add your own butter and salt to because it doesn’t taste very good)! When you think of popcorn, what is the other think that comes to mind real quick?! A MOVIE! Come on…who doesn’t like popcorn with a movie?! And an even better question is who would like FREE popcorn with a CHEAP movie?! The answer is probably EVERYONE! With the ticket and popcorn prices at the movie theater in town continuing to rise, I have found that I like to rent a Redbox movie instead of paying to watch one in the theater! Redbox played a big role in my experience with the act of kindness this week!

    My Mom and I had a day off work this past week, and we spent the day together! It was very enjoyable, and we spent a majority of the day finding birthday cakes in the St. Louis area on the Cakeway to the West region-wide scavenger hunt! Happy 250th birthday St. Louis! It sure was fun starting to find the 250 cakes at signature sites throughout the city and area! 

     I intentionally thought of the act of kindness the evening before and found popcorn sitting in the back of my pantry. In the morning, I met my Mom with a couple bags of popcorn and a permanent marker in hand. I wrote on the bags: “Free! Please enjoy some popcorn with your movie! Have a great day! (Act of Kindness)”.

     At the end of our birthday cake hunt, my Mom and I found a Redbox and left the bags of popcorn there for the next one or two customers to take and enjoy with their movie! Sidenote- As I was writing this blog post, I prayed for the strangers who found the popcorn. They are not strangers to God though! God knows who they are and what their needs are!  

     The majority of our homes have bags of popcorn that have not been used yet (and we don't have a plan to eat it soon either) but if you don't, it probably won't cost you more then $5! This is a perfect example of how you do not always have to spend a lot of money or time on acts of kindness but how being intentional is the key! Lets search our pantries this weekend and find some food items that we can use to brighten a stranger's day! Be as creative as you would like and then please share your experience with me!!

2 comments:

  1. Another encouraging idea so show kindness! Glad I could be a part of it!

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  2. I'm glad you were too!! Thank you!!

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