21 Days of Random Acts of Kindness - AFTER Christmas

I was reading a blog post recently in which the readers were invited to participate in the 12 Days of Christmas challenge...

Service is something our family does, but not in the same way every year. We have participated in this, as well as in The 25 Days of Christmas, and various Random Acts of Kindness project;, but we haven't made a consistent "tradition" of any specific one of these. :o What's up with that? How can one NOT adopt a specific tradition of serving  each Christmas Season??? OK, so maybe it doesn't matter WHICH one you do, or even if you alternate, as long as you're serving what you call it really doesn't matter...

Actually, I TRY to do random acts of kindness all year round and was inspired to by the book "The 17 Second Miracle" (which I have read every Christmas since it was written in 2010). But I think it a good idea to make random acts of kindness a family event as well.

I do wish I had remembered to do this with my family this year! Boo-hoo... WAIT - Who says it has to be the 12 days BEFORE Christmas? Why not do it the 12 days AFTER - to remind us to carry the Spirit of Christ into our hearts and lives - AFTER Christmas, not just at Christmas time - but ALL YEAR LONG! :) I feel quite good and happy about this thought! :D  In fact, since it takes 21 days to create a habit, why not do it for 21 days  - being certain that the 21st day arrives after Christmas?

Intermission - (I'm going to go talk to my family about this...)

I have spoken to my husband about this, and he likes the idea, so we decided to make it a tradition and invite our family and friends to do it with us... :)  Therefore,

We would like to invite you to join us in our celebration of Jesus and the life He inspires us to live.

I am excited to announce that our family is starting a new tradition - the tradition of making it a major focus to serve and perform random acts of kindness as much as possible for 21 days in a row, so as to help kindness and service to become a solid habit. We may start it before Christmas, or on the Day of Christmas - the important thing is that we continue on AFTER Christmas...

We will call this new tradition...

The first annual 21 Days of Random Acts of Kindness - AFTER Christmas - Project...

Let this tradition be a reminder to us - to carry with us the spirit of Christmas, not just at Christmas time, but after the Christmas Season as well - in fact, all year long...

Please help to spread the word - Think of the good we can do if many people go about making it a habit to selflessly go about doing random acts of kindness to others... :) 

I may leave this post up without re-posting for a short time to be sure it is seen by as many people as possible coming to my blog. Please invite your friends and family to participate as well. This is a great and fun way to stretch out and lengthen the wonderful feeling we have during the Christmas Season and to help us make Chris-like kindness a greater part of our everyday lives.

PS. Our family will also be listening to Christmas music - or at least music about Christ - all year long...

What other Christmas traditions do you think would be fun to carry on into our lives AFTER the Christmas season is over?