[Ohio-talk] FW: RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

[Smith, JW]

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From: Chuck Dailey <cdsd1951 at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 11:59 AM
To: ;
Subject: Fw: RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS


          To Become An Angel
             Random acts of kindness are those little sweet or grand
        lovely things we do for no reason except that, momentarily,
        the best our humanity has sprung, exquisitely, into full
        bloom.
             When you spontaneously give an old woman the
        bouquet of red carnations you had meant to take home for
        your own dinner table, when you give your lunch to the
        guitar-playing beggar who makes music at the corner
        between you anonymously put coins in someone else’s
        parking meter because you see the “Expired” medallion
        signalling to a meter maid—you are doing not what
        life requires of you, but what the best of your human soul
        invites you to do.
             Most of us try hard to fulfill our obligations in life, to
        be responsible parents, to reward and discipline our
        children, to assist our employees or colleagues, to
        support and comfort our spouses, to do our share of the
        deeds we are expected to do, what in fact we have
        agreed to do because of the mates we have chosen, the
        lives we have decided to live.  They come, in effect, with
        the territory.  To be reasonable, decent, civilized human
        beings who maintain the stability of our lives and our
        relationships, we must and we will do all these ordinary
        things.
             But it is when we step outside the arena of our normal
        circumstances, when we move beyond the routine and
        enter the realm of the extraordinary and exquisite.
        Instead of being responsible good deeds they become
        embodiments of compassion.
             To become the perpetrator of random acts of
        kindness, then, is to become in some sense an angel.
        For it means you have moved beyond the limits of your
        daily human condition to touch wings with the divine.
             No longer circumscribed by can and must, you have
        set your soul free to give for the sheer, beautiful sake of
        true giving.  In giving freely, purely, for no reason and
        every you move into another person’s emotional
        landscape—not because you must, not because you have
        not because in your heart that majestically superhuman
        organ, the castle of your love, you have felt the
        spiritual necessity of acting our your love.
             To become the person who behaves in this way is to be
        twice blessed.  For, in enacting these beautiful,
        spontaneous, wholly gratuitous goodnesses, you
        transform not only the world, but to yourself.  The world—
        embattled, divided, discouraged, bone weary with  with
        the sweetness of imaginatively unpremeditated love.  Its
        atmosphere alters.  Quietly, almost imperceptibly,
        because of the little kindnesses that have been unleashed
        upon it, will begin to sing.  And you too will be changed.
        For in choosing to love not only those whom you have
        committed yourself to loving but also those names, faces,
        and true circumstances you will never really know, you
        be moved palpably, inescapably into understanding that
        loving and being loved is the one true human vocation.
        You will see yourself as an offering, generous, bountiful
        soul, as well as needing human being.  You will feel
        connected, centered, received— deeply bonded to the
        human stream.  In giving love, you yourself will
        understand that we are held in the web of life—and
        delivered to our divine humanity—by the random acts
        of kindness, the love, that we give and receive.
        -----------------------------Daphne Rose Kingma-Santa Barbara, CA

          Love, Chuck & Shirley

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