Suarez-Orendain: Kindness

Suarez-Orendain: Kindness

THE year is kept together by festive and meaningful events with one bookend created by January, and the other by December.

January is the perfect beginning and fitting bookend. It props up our hopeful desire to do better with a list of good intentions at New Year.

During the other months we chronicle our innermost visions and dreams in life.

In general, for example, February is the poster boy for love. People never stop hoping to find Forever Love.

All throughout the other months are classic themes and advocacies that aim to raise awareness or improve the way people interact within the family and community.

I have observed that no matter where we end up in life, somewhere down the road we have met with kindness and remembrance or someone remembers a kind act we did but thought little of it until someone points it out.

I recently read news on how five-time Ballon d’Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo remembered a woman working at McDonald’s giving him free hamburgers as a 12-year-old.

He and other youngsters at his childhood Sporting Lisbon Club would drop by McDonald’s, which was near the stadium, and knock on the fast food’s backdoor.

The hungry boys hoped the woman and two of her co-workers would serve them leftover hamburgers.

It was clarified in the news that the manager gave the women permission to do their act of kindness.

Cristiano’s interview with Piers Morgan and the star striker’s appeal to help him find the women yielded the name Edna Caldas. Little did she know she was giving a snack to a future football superstar whose net worth is a mouth-watering $100M.

There was a hint of a dinner with her and Midas knows what other rewards he would give her and the two women, if found.

Cristiano, who grew up very poor, and never denied it, has not forgotten to keep his feet on the ground. His humility makes his personality and wealth shine even more.

This news makes a heartwarming bookend for December. It points to the impact on how kind acts can help raise a person to become productive and in turn become kind.

As great as this story is, the celebration that bookends the year is Christmas.

The calendar event surpasses every human act of kindness and remembrance because it celebrates how God remembered his promise to send a Savior in Jesus Christ. Through Christ the Lord we have been spared from the pain of spiritual death.

As we eat and make merry this Christmas, may we remember the humility with which Christ died for us and the kindness he still dispenses to us today.

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