Kindness should be deeply rooted in our character. Developing a healthy habit of giving will prevent us from being self-centered. In case you need a little help, here is a list of 20 ideas to get your creative juices.
- Pay for the car’s order that is behind you in the drive-thru.
- Buy diapers, wipes, or baby food for parents with small children.
- Buy prepaid gas cards for people visiting loved one’s in the hospital.
- Write to someone in prison.
- Feed parking meters on your lunch hour.
- Give up your place in the grocery line to the person behind you.
- Baby sit in order to give a young couple a night out.
- Bake cookies for the local firehouse or police department as a thank you gift.
- Pick up trash in your neighborhood.
- Write a thank you note to someone in your past that has made a difference in your life.
- Take a co-worker out to lunch.
- Clean someone’s home for free.
- Pay someone’s bill at a restaurant.
- Buy a couple dozen doughnuts for the staff at your child’s school.
- When cooking, double the recipe and take the second batch to your neighbor.
- Mow your neighbor’s lawn.
- Buy a gift certificate while checking out at your favorite store and give it to someone coming into the store as you are leaving.
- Invite a single mom/dad over for dinner.
- Secretly give flowers to the office secretary.
- Help an elderly person run their errands.
What other things might we add to this list?
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Love the list! Other ideas
- Take up other people’s trays at a food court
- Hand out free stamps at the post office
- Hand out cold water at a community event (summer)
- Digital Camera plus colored printer = free portraits
- Free oil changes (if your handy like that)
These are great additions. As Todd points out below, this could be a never ending list. We have a great list going here that could be done as individuals or as a group. If you read Nolan’s comment below, he is not only doing a good deed, but going the extra mile and coordinating others to help. He’s a true Jedi.
And share this list with everyone you know. Spreadin’ the gospel through lovin’ others is exactly what Jesus said to do.
Chris is sharing this list with others. See below. I sat through a message yesterday where the pastor encouraged us to be messengers of hope. What better way to do that than with kindness?
What a great start to what could be a never ending list!
My addition would be: Don’t just tell your friends how much they mean to you…show them. Do something special for them!
You do that very well my friend. Thanks for the input.
P.S. You’re right. This could be a never ending list. It just takes each of us a few minutes to ask what the needs are around us and then do something to meet them. We are only limited by our unwillingness to ask, “What can I do to help someone today?”
This is good stuff. I’m forwarding this to everyone on staff here.
I love it when Jesus stuff goes viral!
Your reply got me to thinking about office life. Here are a few ideas that just came to mind.
1) My wife had me stop and buy her office manager a coffee this morning. So coffee or sodas as a gift could be a great way to say thank you or I’m thinking about you.
2) How about covering the phones for an administrative person so that they can catch up on other needed work.
3) How about bringing everyone around and introducing them to the new employee one at a time instead of the awkward here is all 25 of our office staff hope you remember their name meetings.
4) If your the boss, maybe you could give up your priority parking space to a valued employee for a week or a month. Or to an expecting mother.
I’m sure those that work in an office could add more here as well.
Our neighbors and friends are expecting and the wife has been put on strict bedrest. My wife insisted to them that we will be providing dinner once a week for the duration of her pregnancy and has started a list for some of our other friends to show them love in this way. Great list, bro!
This is Jedi level kindness. Not only providing a meal, but going the extra mile and getting others involved. I know the husband will be grateful that he doesn’t have to live off bagels and tv dinners.
So often, there are opportunities all around us and we just miss them because we aren’t looking for them. May God bless you for your good deeds!
Lord, we have a great list of ideas being put together here. I pray that you would stir our heart so that we will take action with this knowledge and not let it grow stagnant here in cyberspace.