A couple of weeks ago I went with my homeschool group to a local food bank. It was the first time that I have ever done anything like that before; but it certainly won't be the last! Me and a couple of other teens in my homeschool group were working in one of the smaller warehouses. In that room they had huge crates that were full of different types of food. They put us on canning duty. We were supposed to take the canned foods and seperate them into the different catagories that they told us. Then we made the boxes, piled up 25lb of canned goods in their, taped it up, and set it on the pallet that they had marked. It was really simple. We were there for three hours, but it only felt like 15 minutes. All of us teens liked it so much that we are going to go once a month.
Why did I share that story with you? Well, because it has to do with our theme. Above Average: Acts of Kindness. How many of your friends or family go to the local food bank once a month? How many of them pass out fresh rolls to homeless people? How many of them send care packages to our troops overseas?
Probably not very many; sadly. Nowadays people just don't think that they have enough time to give out of themselves. But you have more time on your hands than you think you do. All the time that you waste playing video games, watching tv, surfing the internet? I'm not saying that you should never do any of those things, but do LESS. Do more for other people.
It is a proven fact that people who are constantly giving out of themselves are some of the happiest in the world. Not the millionares, not the perfect family that's living across the street, not even your pastor. Just the people who are constantly giving out of themselves. Just little things like, baking cookies for your neighbors, talking to people at school or church that you normally don't give the time of day, helping at a food bank, passing useful things out to homeless people. And the most simple one of all, a smile.
