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You can copy the gif above and
paste it into your own program or layout or use the
links below to download your own cards. Start your
own chain reaction! These below are already
formatted for 8.5x11 business card sheets.
Kindness
Coupons for Kids - This
is a great idea for kids to give coupons to perform
an act of kindness. Kids can print out the great
coupons that will tell you they are volunteering to
pull weeds in the garden, mow the grass, or perhaps
do the dishes. Just click on Kindess Coupons at the
bottom of the right hand box!
Rebecca
Ryan Resources presents
A Magazine of People and Possibilities, The Daily
Inspirational Page and Acts of Kindness -The Daily
Page plus many more inspiring stories on acts of
kindness.
Practice
Random Kindness Everyday
- This link will take your to a daily suggestion to
do so!
We would like to invite you to
The
RAOK Group - Random Acts
Of Kindness - and extend our hands in friendship
across the miles. We are so glad you found your way
here and hope you will stay for a while and meet us
and explore our site. RAOK is a group of over 3000
men, women and children who have signed up to spend
5 minutes a day making someone else smile. We sign
guestbooks and send cards to people we do not even
know. Of course anyone can commit an act of
kindness on the internet as well as in their home
and work place but we have joined together as a
group of friends to make the internet a friendlier
place.
He almost didn't see the old
lady, stranded on the side of the road. But even in
the dim light of day, he could see she needed help.
So he pulled up in front of her Mercedes and got
out. His 20-year-old Pontiac was still sputtering
when he approached her.
Even with the smile on his face,
she was worried. No one had stopped to help for the
last hour or so. Was he going to hurt her? He
didn't look safe, he looked poor and hungry. He
could see that she was frightened, standing out
there in the cold. He knew how she felt.
It was that chill which only
fear can put in you. He said, "I'm here to help you
ma'am. Why don't you wait in the car where it's
warm? By the way, my name is Bryan." Well, all she
had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was
bad enough.
Bryan crawled under the car
looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his
knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change
the tire. But he had to get dirty and he hurt his
hands. As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she
rolled down the window and began to talk to him.
She told him that she was from St. Louis and was
only just passing through.
She couldn't thank him enough
for coming to her aid. Bryan just smiled as he
closed her trunk. She asked him how much she owed
him. Any amount would have been all right with her.
She already imagined all the awful things that
could have happened, had he not stopped. Bryan
never thought twice about the money. This was not a
job to him. This was helping someone in need, and
God knows there were plenty who had given him a
hand in the past. He had lived his whole life that
way, and it never occurred to him to act any other
way.
He told her that if she really
wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw
someone who needed help, she could give that person
the assistance they needed, and Bryan added,
"...and think of me". He waited until she started
her car and drove off. It had been a cold and
depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for
home, disappearing into the twilight.
A few miles down the road the
lady saw a small cafe. She went in to grab a bite
to eat, and take the chill off before she made the
last leg of her trip home.
It was a dingy looking
restaurant. Outside were two old gas pumps. The
whole scene was unfamiliar to her. The cash
register was like the telephone of an out-of-work
actor -it didn't ring much. Her waitress came over
and brought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She
had a sweet smile, one that even being on her feet
for the whole day couldn't erase.
The lady noticed that the
waitress was nearly eight months pregnant, but she
never let the strain and aches change her attitude.
The old lady wondered how someone who had so little
could be so giving to a stranger. Then she
remembered Bryan.
After the lady finished her
meal, and the waitress went to get change for her
hundred dollar bill, the lady slipped right out the
door. She was gone by the time the waitress came
back. The waitress wondered where the lady could
be, then she noticed something written on the
napkin, under which were four $100 bills. There
were tears in her eyes when she read what the lady
had written "You don't owe me anything, I have been
here too. Somebody once helped me out, the way I'm
helping you. If you really want to pay me back,
here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love
end with you."
Well, there were tables to
clear, sugar bowls to fill, and people to serve,
but the waitress made it through another day. That
night when she arrived home from work and climbed
into bed, she was thinking about the money and what
the lady had written. How could the lady have known
how much she and her husband needed that money?
With the baby due next month,it was going to be
hard on both of them. She knew how worried her
husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to her,
she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and
low, "Everything's going to be all right; I love
you,Bryan."
There is an old saying "What
goes around comes around"
Did you know that the Saint
Jude's Ranch for Children in Nevada, a facility for
helping abused and neglected children, has an
innovative recycling project that will transform
your old greeting cards into much- needed cash for
the facility? Yes, indeed!
People from all over the world
send their cards to St. Jude's where the children
cut out the front covers and create new cards to
resell as a fundraiser for the ranch. It seems that
no part of the card goes to waste. Even the
leftover cuttings are recycled and sold to a
chipboard company.
If you would like to help out
with this worthy cause, mail those cards to:
Saint Jude's Ranch for
Children If you would like to purchase
some of the newly created cards, send your order
to:
Saint Jude's Ranch for
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