Love, Compassion and Kindness
10 Easy
Ways to Say I Love You - The importance of letting others know you
love them, and some ways to say it to those both near and far from you.
A
Beautiful Heart - The story of Skylar, a little girl who joyfully gave her
own money and her Christmas presents to a homeless child at a shelter.
A Law
of Successful Living - a story of returned kindness from the lives
of President Hoover and Ignacy Paderewski.
A Life That
Makes A Difference - The story of Anne Sullivan
Colored and Clear Lights - An analogy on how colored lights draw
attention to themselves, while clear lights shine on other things and
how this relates to types of personalities.
Driving Away the Shadows - The story of the newspaper
clipping President Lincoln kept in his pocket that was found when he was
shot.
Good Friends Are
Good Medicine - The importance of friends, and how Sam Rayburn, when
ill, returned to his home in Texas to be among friends, even thought the
hospitals were better in Washington, D.C.
Good People
- A man driving home after visiting his sick daughter starting "falling
apart" and was helped home by some good people (truckers) also on the
road.
Hang On to
Each Other - The story of a nurse's love to a dying patient.
Living in the Same Box - The story of the kindness of the
German Luz Long at the long-jump event at the 1936 German Olympics.
Loved Into
Action - A story of loving by example.
Love Without
Measure - A story of unconditional love.
Love is
Understanding - The story of a woman who made doilies when she was
upset with her husband.
Pillars on Your
Porch - How burdens are eased when others care and help.
Surprised
by Joy - The story of service given and being returned in a
miracle-like fashion.
The Best Gift
Ever - A story about President Carter and his wife, and how they
came to accept each other's faults and increase their love for each
other.
The Fable of Mary
Lin - A fable about living a life of compassion.
They Are All
Our Children - A story that illustrates how we should care for all
children as if they are our own.
To Honor their Souls-
the Story of Katherine Lawes - Wife of a prison warden,
Katherine Lawes showed love and respect to all the prisoners.
They, in return, were devoted to her.
Web of Love
- Using a ball of yard to illustrate to students how we are all
interconnected.
What
Is Most Important - The importance of relationships.
What Would You Die For?
- The story of Cagular, and how when he was brought before his
enemy Cyrus, he asked only that his wife's life be spared.
When
Others Grieve- How a few kind words help the grief-stricken, from
the life of poet American poet Edgar Guest.
When
Someone Grieves - How to comfort someone who is grieving.
Who's
Your Best Friend? The qualities of a best friend, as stated by Henry
Ford and others.
You are One of Us
- How we should all share pain, loss, and even gain.