Wednesday, February 12, 2014

The Kindness of Stepping In

"Because that's what kindness is.  It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can."
― Andrew Iskander

Today was a day that required a lot of zipping around, driving from one place to another.  To pick up all my children, I had planned driving gymnastics that were going to be hard to pull off.  Without being asked, a lovely friend of mine stepped in and said that she would pick up one of my children and keep him as long as necessary.  She even talked me through the various texts I needed to send to make the whole thing go smoothly at school.  Her kindness enabled me to catch my breath and saved me an hour-long roundtrip that there was no way I could realistically pull off and still do the other two pick-ups I needed to do.  In the classic way of true generous souls, my friend made it all seem like no big deal, which made her kindness all the sweeter.

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