The Winter Olympics are coming to a close, and to be completely honest the Winter Olympics aren’t my favorite. The events just don’t capture my attention has much as the Summer Olympics do. However, I do watch on occasion a few events when it’s on just for the fun of it.
There was a segment on a late night TV news show showing the Men’s cross country skiing event. There was one man, Russian Anton Gafarov, who’s ski broke after a bad fall, but that didn’t stop him from trying to finish the race. It was a tough thing to watch. It breaks your heart to keep watching some one who has trained many years for this only to have to struggle to the finish line.
However, there’s hope. A Canadian coach, Justin Wadsworth, runs out onto the track and takes his broken ski off and replaces it. This was a true act of kindness, one that has been shown multiple times in the Olympics like when a girl in the ski event who’s pole broke and a Norwegian Coach runs out and gives her a new one even when she pushes his athlete off the medal podium.
These are the acts of kindness the world needs. Even though these people aren’t from the same country they are unified by the sport they love. And that’s what I love about the Olympics; the love and appreciation for the sport.
This inspires me. It inspires me to step out and be kind to those even if it’s for no reason and has nothing to benefit myself.
Things like this are the kind of actions people need to see and strive to imitate in their lives too. The simplest acts of kindness can make a change that can ripple on to others. Even a small act like paying for the persons food behind you at the drive-thru can make someones day.
I know this isn’t the typical post for my blog with it being only about kindness and not about Jesus or being a devotional, however, I would like to end this with these verses about kindness:
“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.” – Luke 6:35
“Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
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