Perfect Time and Extreme Kindness all at once…

It’s the week of the extreme kindness week challenge at the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation.  I decided I like this idea and would participate.  In the days before I began to think about what would be extreme kindness and I was so curious about what this week would be like.  Well..think…what would be extreme kindness?  So while I direct that question out, things begin to happen. 

On Monday, the first day of the challenge begins and the first task is to send a note of appreciation to someone.   I was planning to do this anyway and I thought it not extreme at all and I was a little disappointed that more was not asked of me.  I guess I was thinking that because it was an extreme challenge, it would be extremely challenging.  I am thinking even more about how this could become extreme.  What is extreme?  I looked up the definition:

–adjective

1.

of a character or kind farthest removed from the ordinary or average: extreme measures.

2.

utmost or exceedingly great in degree: extreme joy.

3.

farthest from the center or middle; outermost; endmost: the extreme limits of a town.

4.

farthest, utmost, or very far in any direction: an object at the extreme point of vision.

5.

exceeding the bounds of moderation: extreme fashions.

6.

going to the utmost or very great lengths in action, habit, opinion, etc.: an extreme conservative.

Then day 2 arrives with the task smile at 10 people, strangers maybe…I can do this and even more, I can even say hello or open a door for them or whatever…but I am hungry for more and still wondering what extreme kindness looks like.

So as I am getting my things together to head out the door this morning, the phone rings and the caller ID says Salvation Army.  I might let this one go but no….I pick it up.  The guy on the other end has a warm friendly attitude and tells me that a truck is coming through my neighborhood this week and wonder if I have any donations.  They have NEVER called me before with an offer like this.  Well, as a matter of fact, I do have several boxes that have been accumulating things for charity that I would be so happy to give them and as a matter of perfect timing, I also have been wanting to declutter in a few areas but have been procrastinating so maybe this is the perfect motivation to get me to do it.  So they are coming by on Thursday to pick stuff up!  Which is perfect!  Perfect!  Because I will not be home all day today but tomorrow I will and around just a few internet appointments and a visit from my Mom, I can declutter ferociously, making the best use of my time!  Perfect timing!  Motivation!  A deadline for completion!  An act of kindness towards me as they are picking it up and providing all that and I can be extra kind in my giving! Not even planned.  I was just open to be kind, to offer whatever I could.  I think this is what the week is about, to try to be extremely aware of all opportunities to be kind and then to participate.   It also seems like  a good idea to be extremely aware of how kind people are to me and how the universe supports us in this exchange.  It makes for a joyful life.   Now that seems like extreme kindness. 

As I picture my world, that is what I want.  All this flow of kindness going back and forth and all around and just inviting in some extreme kindness gave me an experience of what it feels like and I now invite more of this!