When Kindness is Huge

"Saints were saints because they acted with loving-kindness whether they felt like it or not."

~ Dan Millman

I truly enjoy small kindnesses, but then there are the huge kindnesses that are shared when you really need them. 

Imagine driving on an early evening at some distance from home to ferry one child to an activity.  Just another day in the life of shuttling children about after school.  And then one of your other children calls and you know immediately something is wrong.  Your youngest child has cut himself with a very large knife.  You try to process the info as the two children at home try to show you the injury on the phone amid crying and screaming.  You are trying to drive, turning the car around...  Trying -- very hard but unsuccessfully -- to think clearly.  You are crying and screaming, too.  But through the haze, you call one of your villagers.  You ask if she is home, if she has a car...  You tell her what is going on -- or at least you try to.  Through tears.  She drives to your house.  She also notices a firetruck parked nearby and instructs one of her children to run to the truck and ask the firefighters if they can take a look at your child's injury.  You are more than relieved when you see her on the phone screen with your children.  And then you see the firefighters.  You are still trying to get home.  When you arrive at your house, your mom friend brings your child to the car and offers to drive you to the Urgent Care.  You sit in the back with your son, grateful for huge kindnesses.  A couple of hours and a couple of stitches later, you all leave the Urgent Care.  It seems like a minor incident -- except that it wasn't.