As always, Rick publishes excellent articles and practical ways we can demonstrate love and kindness.

Love is an action
by Rick Warren

Dear children, let us stop just saying we love each other; let us really show it by our actions.

1 John 3:18 (NLT)

Love is something you do. You show love by what you do, not just by what you feel.

Love is more than attraction and more than arousal. It’s also more than sentimentality, like so many of today’s songs suggest. By this standard, is love dead when the emotion is gone? No, not at all. Because love is an action; love is a behavior.

Kindness is an act that dates back thousands of years.

Here is some scripture Galatians 5:22-23. The NIV Bible lists the fruit as love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

1. Genesis 19:19
Your servant has found favor in your eyes, and you have shown great kindness to me in sparing my life. But I can’t flee to the mountains; this disaster will overtake me, and I’ll die.
2. Genesis 21:23
Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you are living as an alien the same kindness I have shown to you.”
3. Genesis 24:12
Then he prayed, “O LORD, God of my master Abraham, give me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham. Continue Reading »
Kindness dates back thousands of years

This video is a classic and a great marketing tool… I cannot help but think of the smiles this video has generated to those that watch it and to those that were a part of it… great tune too!.

If you have been following Matt and his antics you know he travels the globe and video records his unique “dance” style to share with the world. Do something fun and pass on some Sun!

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It is great to see Hollywood get behind the Pay it Forward campaign. The Kindness in Motion Team is always looking for ways to encourage others to do just that, Pay it Forward. Consider treating a friend to this Movie, you never know what seed it will plant or the good it will do.

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To the Kindness in Motion Team this image literally means we hold the Sun in our hands and if we choose we can pass on some Sun to another person each and everyday. Make today the day you pass on some Sun to an anonymous recipient.

Pay for someone’s coffee, toll fee or lunch in a fast food drive thru. Deliver some baking or cut someone’s lawn. Remember, YOUR ripple can start a WAVE ~

Start by downloading some smile cards and performing an anonymous act of kindness, after completing your kind act leave the card which will hopefully encourage the recipient to do same.

Pass on some SUN!!!!

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We know this principle because it’s true in every area of life. Whatever we sow, we are going to reap:

· If we’re judgmental, then others will judge us.

· If we’re critical all the time, then others will criticize us.

· If we gossip about others, then others will gossip about us.

· If we’re jealous, then others will be jealous of us.

Whatever we give out, we’re going to get back. As the old saying goes, “What goes around, comes around.”

On the other hand, we can sow the positive. If we sow encouragement, affirmation, and kindness, others will give back encouragement, affirmation, and kindness. If we sow love, people are going to sow love back to us. God wired the universe that way.

And, we always get back more than we give. Always! This great excerpt was from Rick Warren at Purpose Driven Life.

Download your free kindness smile cards today! Your ripple can start a WAVE ~

At KindnessinMotion.com we are so passionate about encouraging and reporting on random acts of kindness that we developed this portal. The internet is used for too many negative functions and we wanted to try and offset that by using it in a positive way.

Join us in encouraging Random Acts of Kindness by performing one today!. Get started, download and print some smile cards, perform a random act of kindness, leave the card and hopefully the recipient will pay it forward or do the same. YOUR ripple can start a WAVE !!!

Need an act of kindness idea? Check out our Kindness Ideas Page

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“Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” Lao Tzu

“Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting.”

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

11-year-old Boy Scout displays an act to make parents proud even though his own wallet is still missing.

DORR, Mich. — When 11-year-old Boy Scout, J.R. Bouterse found someone’s wallet containing $800 inside, he understood the empty feeling the person who lost it was going through.

Only a few weeks before, he had lost his own wallet and the $45 it contained.

Bouterse immediately told an adult about his discovery, which was turned over to a law-enforcement official and returned to its grateful owner.

“We’re just so proud of him,” said the boy’s mother, Michelle Bouterse, 41. “We can’t say enough.”

To reward the boy, the Michigan State Police threw a pizza party Monday night, not only for the law-abiding child but for all 30 Scouts in Troop 90.

Surprise guest
Another guest at the party, to J.R.’s surprise, was 20-year-old Jessica Cutler, the wallet’s owner, who wanted to personally thank him for his act of honesty.

“I can’t believe someone would find a wallet with that much money in it and not take some,” she said. “A lot of people maybe wouldn’t have done that same thing. I’m just glad he found it and not someone else.”

J.R. found the wallet while leaving a Scout meeting at the church about a week ago.

“I knew exactly how she felt,” he said. Unfortunately, J.R. wallet has not been returned which makes the story all the more incredible.

What a great story and we look forward to posting more of the same.
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