Here are my thoughts regarding Sandy Hook Elementary School:
1. Love on them, pray for them.
2. Realize this goes beyond the upcoming talks of gun control, violent video games, mental illness and subluxations… While some of the previous items may or may not be appropriate responses, its a human condition at hand. Go beyond the politics, divisions of faith, and personal opinions…
3. Love on a random person with regularity. Even thieves and robbers hug and kiss their own. The only way we are going to swing the pendulum the other way is to love more than others hate.
4. Get over (y)ourself. Overcome (y)our fear to provide random acts of kindness. We all get busy in day to day life, myself included. Many, myself included fear that such acts will be taken wrongly or waved off because that other person is in a rush or just a miser. But practicing one act a day can change the world.
5. One act of random kindness leads to another… realize that if we start on the east coast and everyone provides one random act of kindness, by the time the folks on the west coast are waking up, every person in America will have received a single random act of kindness from another.. then repeat it again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next and the day after that.
I prayed this morning asking what I can do. The message I received was to stand around a little longer at the gas pump when I stop and approach the person on the other side of the pump and simply ask them if I can give them a hug. I’m afraid; because I don’t know how they are going to react… but how could someone say “no” to that? Even asking the question HAS TO warm the heart of the worst scrooge.
What will you do?
While I was driving in, I issued a challenge to myself to do that exact act every day from now until New Years. Will you join me in providing teh act you feel is appropriate for two whole weeks?
