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Acts of (un)Kindness Stick
We talk about intentionally doing acts of kindness, because they bless people. Those persons are affected by what we do. Unfortunately,...
May 9, 2025
Terrible Circumstances
Annie Dillard, a Christian writer, says this: ''God is no more blinding people with glaucoma or testing them with diabetes or purifying...
Apr 25, 2025
Finding Life
Here is the formula for effective, satisfying, and meaningful living — it is to behave in a way that is not naturally comfortable. It is...
Apr 11, 2025
Thoughts Generate Chemicals
An Olympic Athlete Trainer was quoted as saying: " There are four negative feelings or thoughts that produce toxic chemicals in the...
Mar 28, 2025
Disability Builds Faith
Popular opinion holds that a disabling life event is likely to destroy a person's faith. A research project studying 26 men and women who...
Mar 14, 2025
Everybody Is Dealing With Something
The amount of stress that everyone is feeling these days can be overwhelming without the right attitude and an antidote by way of our...
Feb 28, 2025
Why Do We Believe in Kindness?
Why are you kind to other people? Why do you do good deeds? Many of us grew up strongly believing that we were called to good behavior in...
Feb 14, 2025
How Tall Are You?
Here is an interesting experiment you can try. I have done this before groups of people, and the results are quite interesting. Stand,...
Jan 31, 2025
The Fifth Side Effect of Kindness
5) Kindness is Contagious When we’re kind, we inspire others to be kind, and studies show that it actually creates a ripple effect that...
Jan 17, 2025
The Fourth Side Effect
4) Kindness Improves Relationships This is one of the most obvious points. We all know that we like people who show us kindness. This is...
Jan 3, 2025
A Kindness Suggestion for Christmas Time
One night, at about 8:00, I stopped at a home, the residents of which were strangers to me. I rang the door bell and a man came to the...
Dec 20, 2024
Kindness Slows Aging
Aging on a biochemical level is a combination of many things, but two culprits that speed the process are Free Radicals and Inflammation...
Dec 6, 2024
Another Side Effect
My last posting began a series of sharings from Dr. David R. Hamilton, PhD,'s book , " The Five Side Effects of Kindness ", and today we...
Nov 22, 2024
The Side Effects off Kindness
When we think of side effects, the first thing that springs to mind are the side effects of drugs. But who’d have thought that kindness...
Nov 8, 2024
Teachable Moments
The kitty lay dead in the street when we woke up. Shocked and saddened, we prepared a burial spot in the backyard. Gently and reverently,...
Oct 25, 2024
Reflecting on Rejuvenation
I am older than I've ever been. In fact, I've never been this age before! So, I've been thinking that we begin to get older actually...
Oct 11, 2024
Friendliness Is So Much More Than A Feeling
When you meet someone, or merely pass a person on the sidewalk, a friendly greeting is called for-most of the time. You do not have to...
Sep 27, 2024
Do You Use This Word Too Much?
There is a word that we all commonly use, but today I want you to consider that perhaps you use it too often. The word is ' just ', I'm...
Sep 13, 2024
When You Are Listening . . .
I have been thinking about the unity of several messages that each supports the others. A minister recently spoke of the unfortunate...
Aug 30, 2024
How About the Word 'Kind'?
Today, I'd like to have you consider some thoughts with me. In my previous posting, I spoke of being kind. And of course, you know that...
Aug 16, 2024
Love Is Not A Feeling
It is accurate to call love "doing good". However . . . such behavior is not necessarily connected to feelings of affection, or...
Aug 2, 2024
You Can Affect the Health of Others
I waxed eloquently previously (I hope you thought so!) on the benefit to your own health from smiling. But the other half of this reality...
Jul 19, 2024
Smile Anyway
Smiling is important, I say. Does the Bible back me up on that? Actually, there are no words that give us a clue whether the Apostles or...
Jul 2, 2024
Hopeful vs Hopeless
Are you, like most people, unsure how to relate to a person in a wheelchair? I've been there! Like, do I acknowledge that they are...
Jun 19, 2024
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