Friday, July 18, 2014

The Kindness of Stepping In

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven."
Henry Ward Beecher

At a dinner party recently, one of the hosts was taking photos of the guests.  He took photos of some of the couples and then tried to take one of a woman who was there without her husband.  She smiled, but said, "Oh c'mon, don't take a photo of me by myself."  As she was trying to gamely go along, a woman she just met jumped up from her chair and got in the photo with the woman being photographed.  A small kindness, but the woman being photographed felt much less self-conscious smiling with someone else next to her.

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