REBLOG What a beautiful reminder of how much joy an person can get from ‘a simple act of kindness
A year ago Linda Bethea and her Mother, Kathleen Swain, did two of the nicest things two strangers have ever done for me.
Linda sent me the gift of a hand designed bag and Kathleen sent me a drawing and a hand written note that claimed me as her Forever Son.
At the time I didn’t know what that term meant.
When I looked it up and saw the definition I was touched on so many levels of emotion that I hardly knew what to do.
A year later and I see how that gesture of compassion healed me in ways that I still don’t fully fathom.
What I do know is that it was an act that changed my life for the better.
When we help to make the lives of other people better we make life better for ourselves as well.
I never forget an act…
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There is a healing in acceptance.
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