Random Acts of Kindess

This is a picture of my niece Cecilia hugging the living blazes out of her teddy bear.

It makes me smile.

I share it hoping it makes you smile as well.

We need more smiling in this world.

Greetings! My name is Father Justin Fulton. I am excited, happy, and humbled to be the Executive Director of Catholic Social Services of Southern Nebraska and I am a native Auburnite. Catholic Social Services is the goodwill arm of the Diocese of Lincoln, NE, and we attempt to serve as many of the poor and marginalized as we can in southern Nebraska from Colorado to Iowa south of the Platte River. I love working with people of all faiths and backgrounds—-from Peru to Palisade, Venango to Verdon, Lincoln to Lamar, and all points in between—-in a shared mission to serve the poor and the vulnerable. All of us have a duty to serve the poor and we all know that this world is a better place when more people smile.

As human beings, we exist to bring smiles to people’s faces. With random acts of kindness people like you bring warmth and the light of love to people who have been down, depressed, forgotten about, sad, hungry, and hurt. When we serve them we bring more love—-and thus God, who is Love—into the world and they smile. There is nothing more satisfying than witnessing people bringing smiles to other people who need it.

When I see this picture of my niece Cecilia I cannot help but think that every human person has had a smile like hers. And it saddens me that some lose theirs as they grow up. Whether they are sad and depressed because of financial difficulties, a loss of a job or loved one, health concerns, difficulties with payments and not having food, clothing, or shelter, whatever it might be—we are all called to help people smile again. We are here because God wants us to be here and He wishes to work through all of us. Random acts of kindness bring more mercy, joy, and warmth into a world that is sometimes lonely, cold and dark. May we always look for opportunities to inundate this world with joy through random acts of kindness!

Thank you for your lives, your sacrifices, your friendships and—most importantly—thank you for your love of others. May we all work together united to bring more smiles and more joy into Southeastern Nebraska!

Rev. Justin Fulton

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