The second kindness I encountered this same day began with a prayer request.  A friend's son was in desperate need of a wheelchair following a brutal gang attack which necessitated surgery to fix a broken hip.  The son had no insurance and was too old to be covered by his father's insurance.  He was unable to afford the purchase of a wheelchair and didn't know where to turn.   Obviously prayers were ongoing for spiritual, emotional, physical healing in addition to comfort for this family, as well as the perpetrators of this crime.  Our entire church was praying.  Within less than an hour, we had an email from our church saying that one of our members (who we often don't get to see at church) immediately brought a wheelchair to the church for our friend's son to use.  It's not unusual for most any of our church members to rise up in aid for another, but what called to my heart in this case was recognizing the great effort made by this particular member.  He stepped out of his comfort zone to help a stranger.  I think this is where the lesson resides for the rest of us.  Often, kindness asks for sacrifice.  Sometimes this sacrifice may be something as seemingly simple as leaving the safety of one's home.  Sometimes the sacrifice may be as difficult as putting aside your own fears to comfort someone else.   Sometimes kindness asks for us to leave preconceived ideas on the shelf, and by doing so, we usually learn something new about ourselves.