Taking Meaning from Kindness.

I went walking the other day around my local area to post a letter, pick up a prescription and generally let the sunshine brighten my mood. As I looked at the sudden colours of spring blooming in the gardens and people taking the first steps towards awakening their passion for gardening, I began to see the goodness of our world.

As if through fresh eyes and ears which had borne the winter's economic depression, I saw things afresh. A little girl was sad as she left the doctor's surgery and her Mum bent down to meet her eye to eye to explain that taking medicine wasn't really so bad as it would make her feel better. The headache and sniffles would stop and she would be able to go out to play again!

As I continued along the pavement beside the parked cars, I noticed that someone had designed a really beautiful Birthday Message and lain it over the windscreen of one of the parked cars. " Happy Birthday Steve- Have a good one!"

It lifts your spirits to experience such little tastes of gentle kindness amongst the usual day to day routine of any normal neighbourhood. It brings a spring smile to my face and thoughts of " the majority of people are truly kind." There are so many cynical people telling us what is wrong in the world we forget that there are more goodness and kindness out there that you can ever imagine. Like all good news it is seldom told.

I am reading "All Will be Well" by Michael Meegan and would love you to enjoy it too.