Constant Acts of Kindness

"Constant kindness can accomplish much.  As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
~ Albert Schweitzer

I recently read an op-ed piece on line that appeared in The Washington Post nearly two years ago.  Titled "When small kindnesses mean everything," the article is by a woman who has just lost her only sibling to a heart attack.  When she goes to the grocery store, she encounters some impersonal nastiness by the checkout woman.  She wonders what would happen if she told the woman about the loss that she has just endured.  She writes, "What if we treated all strangers and friends with the gentleness we reserve for those who have suffered a major loss?  This wouldn't be random acts of kindness; it would be constant acts of kindness."

We never know what others are going through.  And during difficult moments, I have been comforted by the smallest acts of kindness by strangers as well as by the larger kindnesses that those who know me have shared.  So what if we aspired to constant acts of kindness?  What does that look like in your world?