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Thanksgiving 2025: Unexpected Acts of Kindness

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2-yr old Emily DeArdo with the Thanksgiving turkey, 1984

Inspiring Thanksgivings of Old

The following is Emily’s post from February 2019 where she mentions the kindness of others back on Thanksgiving day 2001.

That kindness must have made a big impact on Emily, so much so that she would write about it over seventeen years later.

We would like to share Emily’s post with you again and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and maybe take some time to remember when someone did an act of kindness for you.


For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me. … Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
- Matthew 25: 35-36, 40