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“Witnessing goodness can make us want to become a little better ourselves.” We are elevated by seeing acts of kindness Every week at church, we ask our youth three simple questions: Where did you give kindness? Where did you receive kindness? Where did you see kindness? Recently we began talking about how those experiences actually feel. The children agreed that receiving kindness feels good. Makes us happy. Giving kindness feels good, makes us happier too. Then one child ask

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”—Dolly Parton Americas agree on the goodness of Dolly Parton Absolutely everywhere I turn today, I’m hearing accolades about Dolly Parton who died in Nashville yesterday (a friend - thank you, Suzanne, sent me a beautiful tribute of one of her most famous songs, I Will Always Love You done by Jon Batiste). Dolly was only a few years older than I am, and she grew up less than an hour from where I grew up in Morristown, Tennessee. Her

“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate… to have made some difference that you have lived and lived well.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson One of my favorite ways to drift into sleep is a quiet little ritual you may recognize as a loving-kindness meditation. It’s a simple practice — offering kind wishes to ourselves and others: “May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I be at ease.” When I'm lying in the dark, I start with myself,