EVERYDAY GOOD COUNTS

Reference text: Matthew 25:31-46

Throughout our engagements in life, we are taught to adapt our messages depending on the audience. So the same topic can be taught at different levels of difficulty. This has been applicable across many spheres and thus even in our pursuit of good, we survey our audience and titrate our good in that manner.

How we perceive others often determines how we relate to them. We, therefore, look for the opportunities for flash and glam – actions that are obvious to an audience. But today, we face a rather interesting situation where the good identified in our lives is not simply in the big things, but even the mundane and everyday actions.

There are actions one may not necessarily think off as ‘doing good’, at least not if we are to count them consciously, but they matter. Those things we simply refer to as ‘noble gestures’ – a kind word, a hold of the door so others can pass, giving direction, saving someone from falling, giving up a seat on the bus, swapping seats with a family travelling together, offering an extra fruit/snack to a colleague. The list is endless.

The opportunity to do big things may come only now and again, but there are many small actions that make up the very fabric of life. Your daily choices ought to be filled with those.

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