I don’t know if any of you have watched ‘The Kindness Diaries’ on Netflix, but it’s amazing. Leon Logothetis is a man who, when young, was bullied and life was tough, and decided that the opposite of being selfish and being bullied – kindness – was going to be his goal in life, looking for kindness and, with certain people who showed him kindness, he rewarded them with whatever they needed.
I’m watching his journey from Alaska to Argentina, in a 50-year old VW Beetle, with NO money on him, needing help/accommodation/mechanics – and finding that, even in our selfish ‘me-me-me I want more money’ world, there ARE kind people who’ll help when you’re in trouble.
In the episode I’ve just watched, he was offered a good meal and a bed for the night in the home of a young woman and her fiancé, she was a refugee from from the Dominican Republic, and her life is given to helping others, but her dream to help thousands more is limited by resources. She wants to ‘stop the traffik’ of young girls, provide fresh water supplies for millions in many countries (and she specifically mentioned Ghana where I guess her roots are historically). Leon’s just told her he’ll arrange funding for her to go wherever she wants in the world to do it…
She’s crying, he’s ‘leaking’, I’m weeping…
Those who know me know that my passion has never been to ‘make it big’ as a preacher but to go to places where no one else who’s goal is money, will ever go. This is a series of programmes I’ll watch over and over again, as it’s my heart to love and care for people, pray for their healing, and do whatever I or my team’s can do practically for them.
Over the years that’s included water pumps for villages to have fresh water, homes for street kids in dangerous and war- torn countries, but it build homes for families and pastors, build (not flashy huge) churches in heathen villages…
You can imagine I’m loving this programme, and dreaming that one day I’ll meet Leon… And praying that God will give me the healed legs to do it a bit easier than I can right now…
I’d encourage to watch ‘The kindness diaries’. It’s uplifting and a blessing.

CE