Day 363 – “What this World Needs is a New Kind of Army – The Army of the Kind”“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.” Annie Lennox Do you belong to the army of the kind?I have just 2 days left of my 365 days of giving journey. One of the organizations that inspired me start 365give was the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. (RAK) They make it easy to give every day. You can be part of a community that believes being kind will make the world a better place. I believe RAK is changing the world and I have one last idea to share with RAK and you.Day 363: Give (RAK) 363“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.” Princess DianaMy house was in need of a new roof. It’s not exactly the home repair job you want to be getting done when you have a new baby in your home (we just adopted a baby boy 2 weeks ago) but it had to be done before the Vancouver winter rains arrived. I had a team of 6 men scraping down my roof at 8 am this morning. I escaped from the banging and scraping for a few hours with my son but when I returned home they were still working like dogs. I thought they were in need of a little break. I put on my “Betty Croker” hat and went and prepared a pot of coffee and snacks that would fuel them through until lunch time.I didn’t have to provide coffee or snacks for this group of gentleman – they were getting well paid to complete the job but instead I wanted to show some additional kindness to make their long, back breaking day a little bit better.Isn’t that what Random Acts of Kindness is all about? “Inspiring people to practice kindness and pass it on to others.”The workman were so appreciative – it was obviously not a common practice at each home they do a job at – but it is at my house. I can’t preform the job they do and I appreciated their expertise to fix my roof.If we all appreciated each other, if we were all kind to each other whether you are a garbage man, a roof layer or the Prince of England – what a place the world would be!Share your favourite RAK with us today!Time Commitment: 10 minuntesCost: $5.00 Share Article:2 Comments tumblr.com on December 7, 2012 at 4:46 pm Everyone loves what you guys are up too. This type of clever work and exposure! Keep up the excellent works guys I’ve you guys to my personal blogroll. tumblr.com Wyatt on April 12, 2013 at 10:14 pm I am going to read about this all day!! I hope you have an RSS feed I could possibly sign up for. I’ve been scouting on the net with respect to information in relation to Random Acts of Kindness.
tumblr.com on December 7, 2012 at 4:46 pm Everyone loves what you guys are up too. This type of clever work and exposure! Keep up the excellent works guys I’ve you guys to my personal blogroll. tumblr.com
Wyatt on April 12, 2013 at 10:14 pm I am going to read about this all day!! I hope you have an RSS feed I could possibly sign up for. I’ve been scouting on the net with respect to information in relation to Random Acts of Kindness.