The extent of my good deeds at Christmas are donating toys to programs that brings gifts to needy children, donating food for the hungry, baking cookies for my colleagues, and being generous to the bell ringers raising money for the Salvation Army.  I sure wish I had the resources to do what “Ben’s wife” did,

Before she left the store Tuesday evening, the Indianapolis woman in her mid-40s had paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. On the way out, she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts of toys for a woman in line at the cash register.

“She was doing it in the memory of her husband who had just died, and she said she wasn’t going to be able to spend it and wanted to make people happy with it,” Deppe said. The woman did not identify herself and only asked people to “remember Ben,” an apparent reference to her husband.

Practice random acts of kindness – as you’re able – this season. There is always something you can do to help, even if it’s just saying a kind word.