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Direction Magazine
|October 2019
Jo Marks explains how an experience at traffic lights in Iceland allowed her to reflect on simple acts of kindness.
I think often in our lives we underestimate the long-term lasting impact and possible wonderful consequences that a simple act of kindness, thoughtfulness or love can make.
I am reminded of the act of four friends who lowered their paralysed friend to Jesus. On facing the crowds and the challenge they could have chosen to not try, to leave it for another day. But, instead, their act of kindness had massive, life-changing repercussions.
This story is from the October 2019 edition of Direction Magazine.
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