RAK-ing while Driving...

I try and remind myself to never underestimate the smallest of things....the small things are actually massive things to me, because of the massive impact they can potentially have...


I LOVE it when I'm out driving somewhere and I see someone walking down the street by themselves and they are smiling! Automatically makes me smile.....


Or when someone in their car smiles at you - not the dodgy guy type smiles, that come with a sly wink - I'm talking the genuine smiles from a stranger in their car. I LOVE those moments!! 


Or when you are trying to get across a mad busy road and no-one is letting you in, then someone slows down and stops, or flashes their lights or gives you the friendly wave to signal you to merge into the traffic - they don't need to, and they might hack off an impatient driver behind them, but they let you go anyway!


Such the smallest things but they always make me smile. 


So, I try and do those things as often as I can as well. Not because I have to, I just love to do them. When your smile is mirrored....that is the coolest...you smile..then they smile...wooohooooo, so cool !!


The real test of character is when and if and how I do those things (like smiling, letting people in, responding to a nutty driver with a smile instead of the expected hand on the horn/flippin the bird/bum chumming, etc) when I am in a rush or in abit of a mood or when it is inconvenient...but I think of ma Jesus and try my best. :)


But I like to think that someones day is made better by catching a smile from a stranger, whether that's me or whoever else..... and never want to underestimate the small things - like a smile to a stranger and what impact that might have. On the crappiest of days, it's insane how much impact a simple smile can have.


One thing I try and do as well, is if someone cuts me off, or zooms past me at crazy speeds, or zips in and out of traffic cutting people off, or just pain and simply is a nutcase on the roads.....I imagine to myself and purposely assume that MAYBE they have a pregnant wife in the car....or just a pregnant woman and are in a MAD rush to get to the hospital....and that's why they are being a loony on the roads... ORRRR that they have just received a phonecall that someone they know is in hospital...so they are acting crazy and speedy on the roads to get to the hospital as fast as they can....rather than getting piddled off that they are being ca-razy drivers because they are just plain ol' knob drivers. Choosing to believe the best of people in those situations in a toughy, but I'm practicing it as much as I can with drivers. 


Anyway...point of this whole ramble....SMILING...such a simple RAK....Random Act of Kindness that can be done while driving...it's the coolest when it's mirrored back...and you definitely notice it on the occasional day where it's maybe hard to smile.....and then someone in their car does it to you....I dunno....can't explain it really - but it's just the coolest. I'm a fan.

Agape

Agape is understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill toward all men. Agape is an overflowing love, which seeks nothing in return. Theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. When you rise to love on this level, you love all men not because you like them, not because their ways appeal to you, but you love them because God loves them.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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101 Things You Should Do Before Going To Heaven - No.5 - Clean Someone Else's Toilet

On the road to heaven, there are some potholes - unpleasant jobs that are part of living in this not-yet-perfect world. Some people try to avoid them. Others grit their teeth and dive right in. Still others delegate, not because they can't do what's needed, but because they won't. They feel ''dirty jobs'' such as these are not worth of their time. Occasionally there are people who break all the conventional rules. They not only do their own dirty jobs, but they volenterr to help others with theirs. The sense of community, service and sacrifice these people share captures a little of the spirit of your future home in heaven.

Go ahead and be one of these ''oddballs'' here on Earth. (You'll fit right in when you get to heaven) Volenteer to clean someone else's toilet. Wash dishes at a homeless shelter. Dig latrines at a church camp. Help with disaster relief in a third world country....not because you have to but because you want to love others in practical, personal, Christlike ways.

When Jesus washes the feet of his disciples at the Last Supper, he was doing a ''dirty'' job. Cleaning off the dust, dung and sweat from sandled feet was something only servants were expected to do. But Jesus loved his followers so much that he was willing to put their comfort and needs before his own. That's what real love is all about.

What you do to serve others isn't as important as the heart with which you do it. The amazing thing is that once you start serving others, you'll find that even a ''dirty'' job wont feel dirty anymore. It may still be challening, tedious, or tiring, but the satisfaction you'll recieve by helping others will make it feel more like a blessing than a chore, nothing like a pothole at all. The End.

Go on, get ya hands dirty! :) Today is RAK day! Random Acts of Kindess Day. This kinda thing definitely shouldn't be a annual day people recognise, should be a daily thing we're doing without even thinking......agree with what it says, sometimes it might still be challenging, tedious and tiring - it's so much easier to just pretend you didn't see it...keep driving, or look the other way, or turn around, or not reply to a request.....but do it anyway. Turn around, stop, reply to the request, volenteer, acknowledge and totally do it. Becomes a habit of the heart pretty dang quickly. And to sound as cheesy as these crazy Americans, the satisfaction totally comes. :) Dooooo itttttttt. :)

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