Acts of Kindness

Most of us have good ideas about how to improve our nation and the world. And yet we recognize that so many of the political and economic forces at work in the world are beyond our ability to influence. So we watch…and we wait…we hope…and we complain…forgetting that nothing will make the world better than simple acts of kindness.

Kindness humanizes us. It not only lifts others emotionally and spiritually but also unleashes chemicals in our own brains which literally change us physically and...