For weeks, we have been promising to keep four promises around giving and receiving.

The first promise says “Wherever I go, I bring a gift. I may bring a compliment, prayer, trinket flower, but I promise to give something to every person I encounter.” Giving of any of these things is an act of kindness although we may not have labeled it as such.

We do many things that we don’t always call acts of kindness, but when we give, when we acknowledge, and when we appreciate, we are doing acts of kindness.

This week we were all focused on kindness.

It was an exercise of the Law of Growth because the more we focused on kindness the more we did it and the more we were nourished by it and the more it grew.

For me, the biggest insight was how unaware I was of acts of kindness.

Before, when I returned a shopping cart that someone left in the parking lot, I didn’t see it as an act kindness, it was just something I did. This week I saw it as a random act of kindness.

It made the job of the person in charge of the shopping carts a little bit easier and it made the parking lot a little safer. Seeing it as a random act of kindness gave the act additional energy and made me want to perform more.

I saw acts of kindness in places I hadn’t looked for them.

I see kindness on Facebook every day. When someone asks for a recommendation, everyone who gives a one or agrees with somebody’s recommendation, is doing an act of kindness.

When someone goes out of their way to help another person, they are doing an act of kindness. When someone posts a heart or a caring emoji, they are doing an act of kindness.

Last week there was a meeting in support of a woman whose husband was taken away without warning, and people who went were doing an act of kindness by being there for her.

When someone helps me tells me to have a great day I say, thank you, I’m having a great day because you helped me.

I stopped driving a while ago and every time one of my friends picks me up and drives me someplace, they are doing an act of kindness.

Noticing people, calling them by name, and appreciating them are acts of kindness.

It turns out the kindness is everywhere, and we see it when we look for it, perform it, receive it and call it by name.