LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE September 20, 2004 Issue

Let your light shine

THIS summer, some kids at day camp, on the island of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, wrote a song about how to be kind to one another and to the environment. Later in the summer, one group of campers had an opportunity to put the words of the song into action. Here's what happened.

"There is a man who lives next door to the camp, who is a little grumpy sometimes," the camp director said. "He thought we were too noisy, even when we were trying to be as quiet as we could. One time, the kids tried to make friends with him, but he didn't seem interested.

"Then one day we had the idea that we could go sing to him. At first, when we went over to the man's house, he didn't want us to come in. But then he invited us into his living room. We sang our 'Random Acts of Kindness' song and another song, and when we finished, this man had tears in his eyes. He couldn't believe campers had written the song. And he said he wasn't mad at us."

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