People aren’t always awful. Sometimes, they’re maybe even just a little bit wonderful. Here are 21 pictures to remind you of that fact. (Posted about 3 days ago)
1. This picture of Chicago Christians who showed up at a gay pride parade to apologize for homophobia in the Church.
(Michelle Gantner / Maladjusted Media)
2. This story about Japanese senior citizens who volunteered to tackle the nuclear crisis at Fukushima power station so that young people wouldn’t have to subject themselves to radiation.
3. This picture of two Norwegian guys rescuing a sheep from the ocean.
5. This poll about what Snooki should name her child.
6. The moment in which this Ohio athlete stopped to help an injured competitor across the finish line during a track meet.
17-year-old Meghan Vogel was in last place in the 3,200-meter run when she caught up to competitor Arden McMath, whose body was giving out. Instead of running past her to avoid the last-place finish, Vogel put McMath’s arm around her shoulders, carried her 30 meters, and then pushed her over the finish line before crossing it.
7. This exchange between a 3-year-old girl and a shopping center.
8. This note that was handed to a waiter along with a $20 bill by an elderly lady in his restaurant.
9. This sign at an awesome Subway restaurant.
10. This picture of a villager carrying stranded kittens to dry land during floods in Cuttack City, India.
11. This sign at an awesome drycleaner’s.
Plaza Cleaners in Portland, OR, helped over 2,000 unemployed workers who couldn’t afford dry cleaning. The store’s owner estimated that it cost his company $32,000 dollars.
12. This photograph of a man giving his shoes to a homeless girl in Rio de Janeiro.
13. This picture of a firefighter administering oxygen to a cat rescued from a house fire.
(TOM BAUER/Missoulian)
14. And this one.
15. This interaction between a Guatemalan girl and a tourist she just met.
16. This gesture from a neighbor.
17. These photos of two children collaborating to rescue a dog who had fallen into a ravine.
18. This note on a young family’s check.
19. This exchange between a protester and a soldier during a protest in Brazil.
(Imagens/ TVBA)
20. These pictures of a man jumping into rough waters to rescue a stranger’s Shih Tzu in Melbourne.
Sue Drummond was walking her beloved Shih Tzu, Bibi, on a pier in Melbourne, when a fierce gust of wind picked him up and hurled him into the rough waters of the bay. A passerby, Raden Soemawinata, who happened to be on the pier that day to scatter his grandmother’s ashes, wasted no time in stripping down and diving into the bay to rescue the animal.
(Photos: Chris Scott)
I love this series, and smile every time I see (and also look again whenever it shows up on my facebook feed). I especially like the one of the man giving away his slippers. Have you seen this one: http://www.kulfoto.com/interesting-things/25136/japanese-protesters-sharing-umbrellas-with-police Thanks for noting that people are not always awful.
Powerful acts of kindness. Reminds me that it only takes one small gesture to change a persons life. God Bless. Peace and Light.
Made my day!
Ben, check my other recent posts – the Flash Mob in a school – parents for their kids – and The Engagement Proposal. Beautiful, too, I think! Hugs, ~Jean
Rita Kirschner,
thank you so much – from my deepest heart – for this encouraging act of putting those magnificent symbolic pictures for public view. My heart revives and trembles of joy about the magnificence we all bear hidden within. Love is spreading – feeling that we all are one.
Thanks to you and unimited LOVE
As channeled through Marilyn Raffaele
http://www.onenessofall.com
Dear ones, we greet you in this time of much change and seeming chaos. We are here to bring hope through the awareness that all is proceeding according to plan even though, as of yet, you are not hearing anything different than the usual on your news. Indeed, much is transpiring that you are as of yet unaware.
Hold to the truth dear ones, and do not allow yourselves to go into fear and doubt from those manifestations of duality and separation from which you are ascending in this lifetime. All is moving swiftly to bring you into the new energies now pouring onto your planet.
Every small loving deed you do for the world and each other – easing another’s burden, adds more light when done through the recognition of truth. Try not to act from the level of a “do gooder”. A “do gooder” is an individual who through a false sense of “holiness” goes about looking for things to fix and whose actions are often ego based, done with the expectation of a return in the form of money or in ego gratification.
“Do gooders” work from the third dimensional belief in duality and separation, seeing people and things that need to be fixed. This is not a judgement, for this is where all start out in their evolutionary journey and much profound help has been given the world through this state of awareness, but you have moved beyond this way of seeing and working and are now required to work from a higher level; a level that knows there is really nothing to fix.
We are not saying that you are to deny what you see in the world, nor are we saying that you are not to give a hand where needed. What we are saying is that it is time to begin to recognize that the outer forms are not God ordained, but simply the manifestations of concepts based in duality and separation. This is the journey of evolution dear ones, moving beyond seeing appearances as reality.
Do your work quietly, allowing it to flow out from a consciousness of oneness, seeing every life as in and of the Divine whole, even if they themselves do not yet know it. The bible message is true in saying that what you do for another you do for yourselves, for there is only One. Always examine your intentions when helping others, and remember that many have chosen their particular experiences in order to learn.
Trust your intuition on these things, always working from compassion and not sympathy, for when you enter into sympathy with another’s problem you merge with the energy of it. In compassion you listen, offer what you can, but stay centered in truth and light.
Many moving into the light of new awareness are trying to incorporate their old familiar beliefs into the new. This cannot be done. You must leave behind all beliefs that resonate with duality and separation if you are to enter into the mystical message of Oneness. New wine cannot be put into old wine skins as is stated in your Christian bible.
Many fear leaving behind that which has been their truth and comfort for perhaps their whole lifetime and which has been the glue holding together family and friends in common worship and beliefs. However, as you open to deeper truths, you must make a choice; “Do I stay in what is comfortable and familiar, or do I move into the new awareness presenting itself to me?”.
Often as with any profound change, there is the fear of upsetting or angering families or partners, and indeed this is often the case especially in strong traditional belief systems. Realize that human worship, ceremonies, and teachings of the past as well as now, are simply concepts of truths; truths interpreted though somewhat un-awakened states of consciousness. This is why in organization, the deeper truths of a message are lost once the original consciousness is no longer around to clarify.
Sacred teachings are then interpreted by those not yet functioning at original teacher’s level. Know that through spiritual evolution you lose nothing of value, but simply move your worship to higher levels of that which is represented by the symbolic rites and rituals of many organized religions.
If those of your “group” are not yet ready to embrace the deeper truths, that is fine. You need not shout your enlightenment from the roof tops, but simply begin to practice it. Go within each day (and as often as you can), taking time to center and contemplate new awareness. This need not be long, just the incorporation of truth into your daily life.
If you experience anger from those who wish you to continue in the old ways, ways you feel you have outgrown, then is the time to lovingly take a stand. Explain only once that you are examining new directions for yourself but that you honor them and their practice and allow them to also choose. Never apologize for your enlightenment but also never try to force it on another.
One of your famous people said that the definition of insanity was to keep doing the same things over and over again while expecting different results, and yet that is what many continue to do. Those that try to continue with what is old and finished after they have evolved beyond it, will consistently meet with failure because that which is finished, is finished. New awareness ready to be lived will be incorporated either the hard way through repeated failure of doing things the way you have always done them, or the easy way through moving into and living out from the new awareness.
This is often seen with relationships where an individual continues to play third dimensional games of relationship after they are ready to live out from a deeper, truer sense of relationship. These individuals move from one partner to another, always seeking the fulfillment promised in old energy beliefs, and always experiencing painful failures until they “get it”. This is what you have asked for, chosen, and are receiving for yourselves dear ones, to evolve.
Many through ignorance or malevolent desire are still working to keep the old energy alive and well. You are the forward flank. You are those paving the way for others. You carry the burden of releasing all that is old and finished in order to bring the whole planet into readiness for the shift into higher dimensional light. You have chosen this. You dear ones, who are clearing and releasing that which is old and finished in your own lives are at the same time helping to clear and release these beliefs from the impersonal universal human matrix of beliefs; adding light for those others who are ready and are attracted to truth.
You are paving the way so to speak and because the head of the arrow creates heat as it moves through the air, so are you often catching heat from those not yet able to fully understand what you are doing, believing, or trying to tell them. Let this be of no concern. Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work sacredly, secretly, and silently which will emanate Light wherever you are and those with “eyes to see and ears to hear”, will respond
Soon you will see the fruitage of you labors. All is well.
The World is truly a wonderful place and having those that care makes it even better . Tears of love and thoughts of the Creator will always be a part of our human existence and this comes with a conviction of pure unconditional LOVE
My daughter sent me this email today. Although cynical of how the media manipulates our emotions every day (not for good reasons), I was inspired by the everyday generosity of the human heart. May we all remember that THIS is what humanity is all about.
Blessings to your daughter, Richard – and to you! Hugs, ~Jean
Just went to check out out my emails and here I am sitting at my computer tears streaming down my face, its simply really LOVE IS EVERYTHING
Thank you so much for all of these but especially the Chicago one on top. I never thought people would do that! Please be blessed in all you do and thanks for the informational blog I will now be a follower of it and share it on my facebook personal account and pages.
Thanks for the pictures. It makes me want to go out and do the same. Today, makes me feel great being a human being.
Thank you so much for sharing this… this is what I would like to see in our new papers. (I’m just regaining composure as I type this
the tears are drying up now… just!) Thank you and much love xx
Wow that was the best I was given up on everyone, if only everyone could just get alone it does not take much.
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fine show, excellent idea and even better for restoring belief in us ALL.
If the whole world population have faith in each other, then we wouldn’t have to kill each other, but sacrifices for each other.
Thanks Jean, this is how I live my life and it is wonderful to see it in pictures of others.
So beautiful, such an inspiration to me, we really do live in very special times, bliss.
Heart warming.
What a wonderful journey it was to go through these pictures and their stories. We should see more of the good side of mankind on a daily basis than the bad. Very inspiring and uplifting. Thank you!
Beautiful!
This is what we should have more of…so beautiful…
Imagine – each of us…doing something like this each day…Sharing Organic seeds…Waving to a neighbour…..lying down beside our animals and talking to them….such a wonderful feeling and it helps fill the soul with what we came here to be…..LOVE
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Great!
More to follow?
thank you ….beautiful gestures of humanity …happy tears happy tears !!!
Thank you for lifting my spirits today!!
Welcome and hugs, ~Jean
These pictures really are wonderful and inspiring. I just looked through several dozen movies to see what might be worth viewing and none of them qualify……….all are extremely violent. sex-driven, or insanely stupid. What happened to Hollywood and uplifting movies?
Guess
Hugs, ~Jean
Acts of unconditional Love The world is waking up.
Amen…..tears and more tears! <3
Very beautiful, heart warming and a reminder that we all can create one of these moments everyday! These events are why I have faith in humanity!
Thannnks for beautiful pictures to make this day even better now.
Such awesome and beautiful acts of humanity!
yes! yes! Yes!
Thanks so much. Just too wonderful for words!
Yes indeed!