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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

"You see the Earth with a sort of global consciousness, a global love. It's a phenomenon that fuels you emotionally, spiritually, and...