Be a Blessing : A Little Bit of Kindness Goes a Long Way

Hello dear friends  I came across this gem while on Google search and just had to share in my blogs... I hope this beautiful story  helps to inspire you to do a kindness to another this  very day. :-) Always remember  a little bit of kindness  goes a long  long way. It builds another up and helps them see joy where they  have lost hope. it also brings  you peace within your soul and much warmth. Today and everyday  beloved friends be a blessing  a little bit of Kindness goes a long way. have a lovely blessed  day/afternoon/evening sweeties. God bless you all. <3  Barb Gadway  A Little Bit of Kindness Enjoy this story full of motivational words of wisdom. May it inspire you to do that one thing, no matter how small. In life, we often are reminded that it is the little things that can make the biggest difference.
	Inspirational Stories  A Little Bit of Kindness  Catherine Pulsifer, © 2007 There are times in our life when we don't take action because we feel the act of kindness is too little, that it wouldn't make a difference. However, sometimes the smallest gesture can make a huge impact on someone's life. There are many different ways we can show kindness to others, and it doesn't have to be in a big way. The simplest of things may make the difference. A smile, a door being held open, a handwritten note, a kind word, the list can go on and on. I was recently reading some of Aesop's fables and came across the story of The Lion and The Mouse. While this story has been around for a long time, it still has wisdom in its words. Below is the story: One day a Lion was asleep when a little Mouse began running up and down his back; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him. "Please don't," cried the little Mouse: "forgive me this time, I shall never forget it: who knows but what I may be able to do you a turn some of these days?" The Lion was so tickled at the idea of the Mouse being able to help him that he lifted up his paw and let him go. Some time after the Lion was caught in a trap, he pulled with all his might, but the ropes were too strong. Just then the little Mouse happened to pass by, and seeing the sad plight, in which the Lion was, went up to him, and with his sharp little teeth gnawed away the ropes, setting the Lion free. "You once laughed at me," said the mouse. You thought I was too little to do you a good turn. But see, you owe your life to a poor little mouse." While you may think the story is far fetched, the point I found in reading the story is not the size of theaction that is important, but the difference that a small action made. Small acts of kindness makes a difference in ways you may not realize!  Do you have opportunities to give small acts of kindness? Some people might think that they do not have a chance to show another person a small measure of kindness but these opportunities are everywhere you go through the day. For example, if you ride on a bus, have you ever said good morning to the bus driver or do you just ignore him or her and proceed to your seat? A simple good morning or good afternoon tells the person that you acknowledge them and it is even an acknowledgement that can help to brighten a day.  If you drive a car anywhere, do you let someone enter into to traffic or do you just keep driving inching along and ignoring the other driver? Stop and wave the other driver into traffic ahead of you is a small gesture of kindness that may influence this driver to do the same for someone else later.  When you go to the supermarket or grocery store, do you hold the door open for a young woman pushing her baby in a stroller or do you just dart ahead through the door without stopping?  When you are at work, do you say good morning to your colleagues or do you just go about your business without acknowledging their presence?  Or, how about those people you meet on the street that ask for money or who are peddling various goods? Do you ignore them, or give them no acknowledgement that they are also human and have feelings?  http://www.wow4u.com/littlebitkindness/index.html Luke 6:35  But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.