Kindness is priceless.

Heroes don’t all wear capes.

“Grandma Elsie” can’t stop bragging about the firefighter who changed her life. She’s in her 90s and accidentally set off her Life Alert pendant while mowing the lawn. Brandon Huber arrived and realized it was a false alarm, but wanted to stay and help with the yard work. He then recruited his 4 sons to completely paint and fix up her 1939 house that had looked tattered for decades. “Nobody asking him to do this,” Elsie said. “He has four kids and works 24-hour shifts buth he did this on the side and it’s amazing. It changed my life!”

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Finders Keepers.

As a child I was taught that “finders keepers” was not always the case. Just because you find something, doesn’t mean it’s yours or that it’s right to keep it. That could not have rang more true one day, in the spring of 1983 when I was walking home from school. I had about two blocks to go before reaching home and looked down only to spot a $20.00 bill laying in the grass. I thought I had struck it rich! I proceeded another block, turned the corner and noticed a young lady with two kids walking rather fast, while looking down as if she had lost something. I stopped her and asked if she had lost something? She replied that she had lost some money and was looking for it. I then pulled the $20.00 out of my pocket and asked, “Is it this it?” She immediately exclaimed, “Yes!” and started to cry. She gave me a kiss on the cheek and continued towards town all the while repeating, “Thank You, God Bless You, Thank You, God Bless You.” I never saw that lady or those kids again, years went by I grew up and moved away.

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Spot on!

The other way to judge character is how people treat animals, and what they say and do when they think nobody is watching or listening.