One of my most treasured friends, Amanda, gave me a Gift of Kindness card with a hug and a kiss and started telling me about this fantastic website she'd found. I've checked out this website and love it too so I thought I'd share it here with you to help get the word out there.

GiftofKindness.com is a website and global initiative with one primary purpose... to inspire others to be kind, compassionate and loving to one another... at home, at work, and in every interaction throughout the day. Kindness is love. It is joy, peace, patience, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Kindness is cultivating the Fruits of the Spirit within us all.

Amanda is now going out and practicing the acts of kindness she would enjoy herself to be given - so flowers and chocolates are featuring strongly in her acts as well as the Gifts of Kindness cards that she downloads and prints - all very easy.

The GiftofKindness.com site is about bringing positive change into the world by helping each of us to practice kindness, friendship, compassion and care for others in our daily lives - including friends, family, co-workers and strangers.

Amanda being Amanda gives flowers at least once a week to someone she doesn't know just to make their day better. Some of the stories she has to tell are heart rendering, including a lady who was coming back from the hospitable after visiting her mum. Not all of us have the confidence to go up to strangers with a bunch of flowers and say, "these are for you, do enjoy". But we do all have something we are good with.

The GiftofKindness.com site has posters you can download and put up at home, school and work as well as an inspirational email newsletter with great stories each month. You can catch up on previous editions online too.

The world might seem to be falling to pieces with the violence and troubles but it is through the choices we make each day in how we live our lives that we can be the change we want in the world. By choosing to practice kindness we can each make our communities a better place.

So if you want more ideas go to GiftofKindness.com and get started by downloading your own series of cards.