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The #AmericaIsKind Challenge: Day 13

The #AmericaIsKind Challenge: Day 13

Last updated on: November 13, 2016 at 4:52 pm by Reba Riley

The #AmericaIsKind Challenge: Day 13 2016-11-13T16:52:12-04:00 Reba Riley

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The purpose of the #AmericaIsKind Challenge is simple:

To remind us all #AmericaIsKind because Americans are kind.

We want to spread kindness, gratitude and acts of good while highlighting the work of great charities. We want to unite our country with a wildfire of kindness and positivity online and in everyday life. If you are tired of negativity, strife & division—especially on social media—

Take the #AmericaIsKind Challenge today!

Here’s How:

**–**On social media SHARE an ACT OF KINDNESS someone has done for you with #AmericaIsKind

–TAG 3-5 friends and your favorite charity to take the #AmericaIsKind Challenge

–PAY IT FORWARD by doing a random act of kindness for a stranger

-OR-

–Take the full 30-day #AmericaIsKind Challenge , with daily gratitudes, acts of goods, and our highlighted charities HERE. You can jump in or out any day…whenever you find the challenge is the perfect time to begin.

Today is Day 13 of the 30-Day #AmericaIsKind Challenge:

Our theme today is LIBRARIES, and our Charity of the Day is the Little Free Library:

“The Little Free Library promotes literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide and to build a sense of community as we share skills, creativity and wisdom across generations. There are over 50,000 Little Free Library book exchanges around the world, bringing curbside literacy home and sharing millions of books annually.”

Gratitude:“I am grateful for libraries & the free access to knowledge and resources they provide.”

Good: Pay a stranger’s library fine

Good: Donate books you will not read again to your local library or Better World Books

Good: Host a book-raiser at your school, church or community organization and donate the collected books to milkandbookies.org. Find out how HERE

Good: Volunteer to be a reader at your local library or Reach Out And Read

Good: Consider donating to our charity of the day the Little Free Library, or (better yet!) Build a Little Free Library in your neighborhood!

Need more kindness & gratitude ideas? We have them. Find the other days of The #AmericaIsKind Challenge HERE

During the year I explored 30 religions, I found KINDNESS and GRATITUDE present in every faith. In spite of our many differences, these qualities unite us.

Later, through a yearlong battle with clinical depression, I discovered that practicing KINDNESS and GRATITUDE are two of the scientifically-proven ways to defeat depression and increase happiness.

Coincidence? I don’t think so!

I came up with the #AmericaIsKind Challenge as a way to inspire the practice of kindness and gratitude, unite Americans with the things we have in common, help others who may be struggling with depression, and to remind us all America is kind because Americans are kind.

Together let’s make positivity, gratitude and kindness go viral with #AmericaIsKind!

For daily inspiration & ideas, follow Reba Riley*,** author of Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: One Woman’s Desperate, Funny, Healing Journey To Explore 30 Religions By Her 30th Birthday on:*

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