Random Acts ... of Kindness

Photo by Donna Godsell on Unsplash

This week's invitation is to practice random acts of kindness and senseless beauty. That phrase was popularized some years ago; Google searches still yield many results. Saying it this morning, what caught my attention was "random acts." The phrase that whispers in my mind is "random acts of violence," not kindness.

It's old news that bad news sells papers and gets "likes." There has been a lot of horrible news recently, so much so that what was an upbeat invitation to kindness has changed into a grim whisper in our minds.

I challenge you this week to be kind and pay attention to random acts of kindness around you. They are still there. As we notice them, we can shift how we see our world. Let's do that work that needs to be done to heal our communities and our dear Mother Earth.