Here’s a problem: How do you get 100 freight train cars to move? That’s about 10,000 tons, and you may only have 2 locomotive engines. The answer lies in how the cars are connected to each other. They have coupling mechanisms that allow for some slack between each car on the train.
When the engineers start the locomotives moving forward, the first car begins to move. The first car’s momentum and the locomotive’s continual pull help get the second car moving, and then the third car moving, and so forth. It is like the train is a giant stretchable spring. The slack between the cars is gradually but quickly taken up, and the train starts moving, one car at a time.
Listen to the talk below to see how this applies to charity.
"Charity is Kind" by Jim Croasmun, the Online Curriculum Design Leader at BYU Idaho.
Music:
Alicia Keys - Good Job | Cover by One Voice Children’s Choir | A Tribute to Covid-19 Heroes
Love And Kindness Hymn Medley - Arranged by Swedish Latter-Day Saints
One World, One Song -Dionne Warwick & Joe McElderry
One Prayer Away - New Christian Song
Show A Little Bit of Love and Kindness -The Collingsworth Family
Short video clips:
"Love Thy Neighbor" - An inspirational message from the LDS Church
