by Jennifer Hallmark | Feb 27, 2017 | Author news, Faith, Small Acts of Kindness
By Janell Butler Wojtowicz Since being widowed eight years ago, my mother, who lives on a limited income, has experienced many loving acts of kindness from people in her small-town Iowa church. They are a close-knit family of believers so I shouldn’t be surprised by...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Feb 20, 2017 | Small Acts of Kindness
By Chidinma These days, with technology and access to information, teaching kids values is a hard job. I have found 7 ways to teach your kids respect and kindness; they seem to work for me, and they have a lasting impact on your child’s life. #1. Do chores and work...
by Ellen | Feb 13, 2017 | Faith, Small Acts of Kindness
I misjudged the entrance to the library so when I turned into the driveway I hit the curb and drove over it. No big deal, I figured. The car still ran fine so I thought nothing of it. That afternoon, I went to a friend’s house and he saw a bulge in my right front...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Feb 6, 2017 | Author news, Faith, Small Acts of Kindness
By Christine Lindsay As a young woman of twenty-one, I didn’t have many friends. That is, until an elderly woman toddled into my life on her old-fashioned pumps. Eighty-something-year-old Eva’s kindness turned my life around from sadness and loss, to new horizons of...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jan 30, 2017 | Author news, Faith, Small Acts of Kindness
By Patti Shene I set out to do my grocery shopping at the Safeway, located twenty miles away, with the coupon book I had received in the mail tucked away in my purse. The federal government paid their employees twice a month, so every payday, this chore had become...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jan 23, 2017 | Author news, Faith, Small Acts of Kindness
By Julie Arduini It was an organization that made me feel important and normal. At meetings I was encouraged that my toddler would not graduate in diapers or with a pacifier. As a new mom, we were given refreshments that weren’t first touched by our child’s sticky...