A World of All Kinds of Kindness

--by Douglas, posted Jul 16, 2009

I can't thank God enough for putting kindness on my heart. I work for Dutch Bros. Coffee in Gresham, Oregon and at work we put all of our small change into a jar. The usual practice is to take all this change after it has accumulated for a while and spend it on employee lunch meeting.

One day, however, i really needed gas money, so i asked our manager if I could use change and he said, sure that's fine. I took the jar and put it in my car, but then I found that one of my fellow co-workers had lost his license and needed a ride home. He lived all the way across Portland and I had little gas. I drove him anyway and to my surprise he gave me 20 dollars when i dropped him off. On my way back home I felt so greatfull that while I was sitting in the car at a light at the off ramp I saw a homelss man in need. I rolled down my window and gave him the jar which actually had 20 dollars in it, oddly enough. He was so thrilled and I was just glad to have been able to help.

Since then I have tried to pass all good deeds on, and be grateful that the world still is full of all kinds of kindness. We just have to make it show.

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Posted by Douglas
Jul 16, 2009
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Readers Comments

Faith wrote: Thanks for doing that. I need to hear about kindness after reading so many horrid things on blogs

maer wrote: Praise God. What a wonderful example! Thank you!

JuneBug wrote: God is good !!! Thank you for being an example! :)

AURELIA wrote: Wow, That must have felt great. Thanks for sharing your story with us. :0) Aurelia

Grammagussie wrote: Karma once again. Thanks for sharing

FairyBubbles wrote: If everyone did things like you have done imagine what the world would be like. Thanks for sharing.

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