Acts of Service, or the Doing in Our Being
To be honest, I’d not thought about being with my father in that cold, lonely hospital room until I heard Palmer talk about how a friend had helped him. That got me to thinking about how our feet are our connection to foundation, the ground on which we stand, and that led me to the questions I want to work to answer: How do we strengthen our foundations? How do we strengthen our community?
Kindness as an Engine for Personal Growth, or Practicing What I Preach
It wasn’t until I got home that I remembered a question I’d posed to an audience last year while speaking at a conference: What if kindness was an engine for personal growth? Essentially, isn’t that what we were talking about? Weren’t we demonstrating kindness for the other person by caring so much that we would be willing to have the hard conversation, and wasn’t that demonstrated kindness fueling our own growth in return? I cannot help but think yes, to both halves of the equation.