Sometimes random acts of kindness go unnoticed, and other times they do get their due.
Case in point, I happened to witness a couple of such acts recently and I thought I would share them with you.
The touching thing about random acts of kindness is, of course, the randomness of it. For the most part there isn’t a lot of forethought that goes into the act of kindness.
One might simply open the door for someone. Maybe you buy lunch for the person behind you in the drive-up line. Or you offer up your place in line at the checkout counter to the person behind you because they only have a couple of items and you have a cart full.
So that brings me to two young girls, ages 3 and 5, who put together a sidewalk lemonade stand one hot day earlier this summer.
Sales on that day were about what you would expect for any neighborhood lemonade stand. After tallying the day’s sales, the two young girls donated the money to a local woman who is battling cancer. That was the first random act of kindness.
Well, one thing led to another and the local grocery store got wind of the two girls’ efforts to raise money and offered up a spot in front of their store to hold another lemonade stand fundraiser.
It didn’t take long for the two girls to recruit their grandpa to build them a lemonade stand for their next fundraiser.
So let’s fast forward to about a week ago when the two girls, with some help from their mom and dad, had the new fundraising lemonade stand up and open for business at the Sunshine Foods Store in Hartford, South Dakota.
The weather wasn’t what you would call ideal for lemonade sales. The two young girls couldn’t have cared less about the weather; they were there to raise money for the lady still fighting cancer.
Oh, and by the way, I am not sure, but until that day I don’t think the girls had ever met the woman they were trying to help by peddling lemonade.
As it turns out, the woman battling cancer stopped by the girls’ stand to thank them for their kindness.
I am not sure if the two young girls, otherwise known as Brooke and Ellee, fully understand the good they did that day, but this grandpa is very proud of his two granddaughters and their random act of kindness.