“The Power of Kindness”

“A True Story of a Simple Act of Kindness”

A simple act of kindness can change the world, and a simple act of kindness is much more important than any grandiose idea that’s never put into practice. Most people never think about their actions as being powerful, yet every act of kindness reverberates across the universe.

Here is a true story about one simple act of kindness

Not to long ago there was a beggar on the street in large city on the east coast and a young man came by and instead of just giving the man his spare change he started talking to the man. And he found out that he had a wife and a five year old son and they were living in a shelter. He broke his leg a while back and could not work and eventually lost his job, and because of that they could not pay the rent and ended up on the street. And the young man was taken back and decided that he needed to something to help this man… so he asked him what he did for a living. And the beggar said he worked in housing construction a carpenter doing framing of new homes.

And that was very surprising because the young man built homes for a living. So he said “Do you want a job?” And the poor man who was down on his luck jumped at the opportunity to prove himself. And then the young man said “Here’s 30 bucks get some food, get some rest, and be at this address tomorrow morning at 7AM”.
So the next day the man was there ready to show the young man what he could do.

And the young man was impressed because this older guy had a lot of knowledge, and knew a lot about how to get things done efficiently… thus save time and money. As the months few by the older man became very good friends with the young man who owned the construction company. Eventually when his other crew boss moved away the older man took his place… and that meant a big increase in pay. So went they out and bought a home and his family move out of the homeless shelter.

And to this day that family is very grateful for having the opportunity to start over, and grateful that someone was willing bend down and spend a few minutes with a man down on his luck.

The funny thing is any one of us could be like the older man and his family, anyone one of us could lose our house and end up on the street. But through acts of kindness and that great God like love that people hold in their hearts everything can change.

Many Blessings to Everyone!

Dr. Paul Haider