31 Days of Kindness

Once upon a time, I had blog called Joyful Jones (it's actually now a place where I archive my grad stories) and it was the space that my husband and I wrote about joy. I had him even write about finding joy to get us talking again and to bring back some of the magic as at the time we had been through a miscarriage. Now that our marriage is ending, I created Happy Joyful Day-- a new place and clean start.

It's great to know that some of you are my long-time loyal readers and others have just barely found me. I still find it exciting when I have an old reader or new reader find me! I am so happy to have you along for the journey!

Anyway, after the above explanation  I've had this tradition of doing random acts of kindness leading up to my birthday for the past couple of years and I loved every minute of it.

While I have thought about doing the project again this year, it seemed a little overwhelming-- while moving from Arizona to Pennsylvania. Thank goodness for wonderful family because I'm fairly settled in now and am ready to take on the project. All month long this time (since the 12 isn't that far away).

I'll have two big service projects during the month. One on my birthday and the other right at the end.

For the rest of the month I promise, small random acts of kindness, ones you can even join along with --the kind that no one knows about and may not even recognize are always the best. We are then acting as God's angels and doing his work.

As seen on Diane Sawyer's Facebook page, "That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." --William Wordsworth

Will you join me in my journey? I sure hope so as we can all use a little bit of kindness in our lives.

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