The #AmericaIsKind Challenge Day 24: Thanksgiving

Last updated on: November 25, 2016 at 11:48 am by Reba Riley

The #AmericaIsKind Challenge Day 24: Thanksgiving 2016-11-25T11:48:16-04:00 Reba Riley

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There are two ways to take the #AmericaIs Kind Challenge:

#1: On social media, SHARE an ACT OF KINDNESS you have witnessed with the tag #AmericaIsKind, then PAY IT FORWARD by doing a random act of kindness for a stranger. TAG 3-5 friends to take the #AmericaIsKind Challenge to keep the acts of good going.

And/Or

#2: Participate in the 30-day #AmericaIsKind Challenge, where we are turning our #GratefulToGood by practicing gratitude and acts of kindness every day for a month. You can find the daily gratitude, acts of good, and highlighted charities HERE. Jump in or out any day…whenever you find the challenge is the perfect time to begin.

Today is Day 24 of the 30-Day #AmericaIsKind Challenge…and it is also Thanksgiving! Our holiday edition of the challenge is simplified:

Our theme today is again LOVE, and our Charity of the Day is your favorite charity: the one that makes your heart grateful that such an organization exists. Please give to them with you time or money in the spirit of Thanksgiving!

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Gratitude: “I am grateful to be able to gather with friends and family to celebrate this holiday of giving thanks.”

Good: The only suggested Act of Good today may be harder than some of the others. Because tensions have run so high around religion and politics–dividing families over the issues and likely at the dinner table–our Kindness today is to act with LOVE as we gather with our families.

Our Kindness is to remember that Love is bigger than EVERYTHING–especially our differences.

You know that argument you want to participate in? Or that old pattern that creeps up when you get around a certain family member? Stop it with genuine love by considering this question: “Would this matter if the person in front of me dies tomorrow? Or if I die tomorrow?” A little morbid, but quite effective because we never know what tomorrow holds. Live with love as if today might be your last: Step away from the judgements, the accusations, the arguments, and be present in a spirit of gratitude.

LOVE IS BIGGER THAN EVERYTHING–on this day of gratitude and every day of the year.

If you need a non-divisive Thanksgiving Blessing to begin–I wrote one. From our home to yours: Happy Thanksgiving!

Reba Riley is the author of Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: One Woman’s Desperate, Funny, Healing Journey To Explore 30 Religions By Her 30th Birthday, the 2016 memoir Elizabeth Gilbert calls: “Hilarious, courageous, provocative, profound…Reba Riley brings the light for seekers of all paths. If Eat Pray Love had a gutsy, wise, funny little sister, it would be Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome.” She is a motivational speaker, blogger, and television contributor. You can find her online on Facebook Instagram Twitter

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