[Ohio-talk] FW: RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

Tue Feb 19 14:12:55 UTC 2019

JW, I love this! My church has named October server Lucian month. That is when we do random acts of kindness and hope that it sticks. Beautiful! Have a great day, I am going to share this with others. Cheryl Fields

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> On Feb 18, 2019, at 12:11 PM, Smith, JW via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Have a great day as you read below and give it a try soon?
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> From: Chuck Dailey <cdsd1951 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2019 11:59 AM
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>          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
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