There is an ocean of goodness in everyone, but we don’t always see it. Although each child is born with the seeds of God’s precious gift of goodness, using this gift does not come naturally. We must develop and nurture it as we grow. We start in our families, where we see it expressed in the interactions, we have with each other. And we extend our expression of it as we move out into our larger communities.

One teacher in a high school class asked the students to write on a piece of paper one good thing that they saw in each of their classmates. Then the teacher collected the comments without the names of the writers, compiled the comments for each targeted student and distributed them to those students. Reading so many positive comments from their classmates, made the class members feel better about themselves for the rest of the year and many for the rest of their lives. (An Unforgettable Classroom Exercise--by freeHUGSrock, posted Nov 15, 2015).