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Karma and Lollipops Janet Kuypers 4/8/19, written on Tangible Karma Day, which falls on the first Saturday in April When we were about to check out of our hotel this weekend, the woman at the registry stopped us, handed us two embossed bunny lollipops, and said “Happy Easter!” Even though Easter was weeks away, I said thank you, then went to their breakfast. While he got coffee and I got orange juice and yogurt, he then pointed out the mom seated with her two little boys eating. I looked at the lollipops still in my hand, walked over to them, and asked if it was okay to give her boys these two lollipops. She smiled and said yes to these plastic-wrapped lollipops, but since I thought breakfast might not be the nest time for candy, I gave the mother the lollipops, then got the last of my food with my luggage before we got on the road again. People get high and mighty with their phrases, “do unto others as you’d have them do unto you”, “you reap what you sow”, “what goes around comes around”, or even “paying it forward”, but these random acts of kindness, this tangible karma, all pretty much amounts to the same basic truth: what you do, the energy you put out into the world, will come back to you. The added bonus for tangible karma is that while doing good for someone else, it makes you feel good too. But if karma is true and good things come to you because of the good you do, then these insignificant acts of kindness are tangible proof — evidence for exactly what you can do. Because the nice thing with Karma is that all that goodness will always come back to you. |
