Act of Kindness – Week #18!!

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out!”

   Hello and happy October (my favorite month of the year)! It was been a couple weeks since I have updated my blog with a new act of kindness idea and encouraged you all to show kindness in the same way! The reason my down time has been more occupied is because I have started a side business of photography! Capturing special moments and memories on camera has been one of my favorite things ever since I owned a camera and now I get to share it with others! I am thankful that I can share the gifts and talents God has given me and it is my hope that down the road doors will open for me to be able to also do photography as a service project for organizations or mission trips etc!

   The past couple weeks, I have not shared a new act of kindness through this blog but that does not mean that I have not been showing God’s love and kindness to the people I know and to strangers that I have come into contact with! It has been fun to do several of the acts of kindness again that I have done and written about on here since May! This has also made me realize that maybe we could all use a recap of the past acts of kindness SO next month I will blog listing the first 20 acts of kindness and a little about each! It is my prayer that love and kindness becomes contagious and keeps spreading, spreading and spreading!!

*The act of kindness this week…show kindness by pushing a grocery chart inside to use during shopping inside of using a grocery chart that is already inside the store!!

   Your first thought when reading the act of kindness for the week might be…“but it is someone’s job, who is getting paid, to push the grocery carts back into the store!” If that entered your mind let me first tell you that you are not alone. I had that very same thought but then realized that we do not purposely leave messes at work for a janitor to clean up because “that is his/her job” etc so if we do not purposely do something to give someone more work why can’t we intentionally do something to help somoene have less work and show kindness at the same time?!

*My experience with the act of kindness…My wonderful husband, Blake, whom I have been so blessed to be married to for almost 3.5 years now helped me come up with this new intentional act of kindness! One of the great things about it is that he did not even realize he was doing it! Blake and I went grocery shopping together one afternoon  and as we were walking into the store, he grabbed a cart from the cart holder and strolled it right into the store like it was something he was in the habit of doing! I usually do the grocery shopping but there have been several times we have gone together during our marriage and this was the first time I saw Blake do this! This was the first time, I believe, that I have seen anyone do this!! 

   I am sure we have all noticed before (or you will now) when the grocery carts have not been brought into the store recently and they are piled up in the cart holder like the above picture. How about being intentional to show kindness to some one that will never find out? What if several people who walked into the store picked a grocery cart from the cart holder?...that would surely make the really cold Illinois Winter months a little nicer for the workers who have to push grocery carts inside! Let’s be intentional about doing something to help a stranger have less work and show kindness at the same time!!

Please comment below with your own experience with this act of kindness! I would really enjoy hearing about it!!