Kindness is Forever
Lou Ann and I were watching another romantic Hallmark Christmas movie just now. Yes, they even have them in July, which I absolutely love! The story line is about a young woman doctor who is very successful in a hospital in Los Angeles. She is depicted like most physicians in this series. Overworked and little time for any other kind of life experience.
She finally gets a short Christmas vacation and heads home to be with her family. Her dad is a family physician who has had a practice in their small town for decades. At one point in the film, she shares with her dad why she chose the medical profession. She had a boyfriend whose mother was dying. The mother was naturally scared about her life. Her father told the woman that he would be right there with her, all the way through her illness. She told her father how kind he was to that woman. She decided she wanted a life where she could provide that kind of care.
There is another scene in the movie where an elderly lady shares her philosophy of life. She said being kind can be a wonderful moment. She said being kind can make someone’s day. Being kind can make someone’s life.
Kindness can look like this: A kind word, a smile, opening a door, or helping carry a heavy load can all be acts of kindness. Celebrating someone you love, giving honest compliments, sending an email thanking someone, telling someone how s/he is special to you, helping an elderly neighbor with yard work or food, taking a photo of someone and sending it to the person, sharing homemade food, refusing to gossip and donating old clothing and things you don’t need are all ideas about how to practice kindness.
I am blessed to be living with one of the most kind persons, that I have ever met. Lou Ann lives from her heart, the place where kindness dwells. Let us all make an even greater commitment to be as kind as we can be. Our world will never be the same if we do so! From my kind heart to yours, Thomas