Kindness

This thought is from a King B Woodard video. He pulls up to the gas station and it is cold outside. A woman is pumping gas and a grown man is sitting in the car. I try very hard to make sure Barbara's car has enough gas. I did forget the other day, I meant to do it the next morning and forgot. If I drive her car when we go some where together, the last thing I try to do is fill it up before we get back to the house. Maybe if it is just to the store and back and there is still more than a half tank, I may not. As a general rule I fill her car up with gas every week. Most times I make it a point to open her door. I think it is a gentleman thing to do. I take her car to get it serviced. I don't know for sure but I don't think she has put gas in her car more than three times in two years. Following is a video clip of a young black man in a hoodie falling asleep on the shoulder of a Jewish man on a New York Subway.
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It was thoughtful and kind. The Jewish man stated the picture would not have gone viral had it not been a Jewish man and an African American.  He is probably right, but shouldn't we all practice more kindness.  I am glad I saw that picture. We need to see more of the positive happenings in life. A protest will garner more news coverage and be seen over and over again. I heard or read one time that it takes 20 positives to make up for one negative. This positive image will probably only bee seen once, but news reports of the negative happenings  will be shown over and over again.  Recently on a flight, there was a young boy in the row in front of me. He was probably having a hard time with his ears as we reached higher elevations, He was tired and cranky. His mother was doing her best. I distracted him for a moment, and touched his little fingers on the seat back, we made a little game of it and another passenger also joined in. The little boy quieted down. Perhaps the distraction got his focus off his own misery. It was a small thing, but it was a kindness to try and help the mother with her child. I am sure there are many other ways we show kindness. My neighbors across the street have a mudhole in their driveway. Me and another neighbor helped them level their driveway area and spread some gravel on top of it, from my gravel pile. Didn't have to do it, but it was a kindness. I think little kindnesses like this happen everyday and we don't notice. I have tried to get these neighbors to come to church, with no luck so far. I think whatever kindnesses I show are largely the result of my wanting to be Christlike. 2 Peter 1:5-8 "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."

 God bless, LVZ.