Daniel, my 8-year-old daughter, is on a crazy ride with our mail carrier, Anderson. My daughter has formed a _______ habit of writing letters and keeping interaction with her favorite _________. If you ever read her hand-decorated letter and envelopes, then I believe they really _________ your day.

It’s likely that a letter from Daniel includes some jokes or questions to _________ a response. _________ when she wrote a letter to Anderson, she put something unique in it. “You may know me as the person living here and keeping writing hundreds of letters. You’re very _________ to me, assisting me to stay in touch with friends. I _________ people with my letters, and you do that too!” Daniel wrote.

On the following day, a package _________ with two letters. One was from Anderson and the other from his trainer, Linda. In the letter, Anderson said he had _________ Daniel’s letter and believed many postal folks wanted to __________ Daniel. Daniel was so __________ with the content in the letter, for the possible result of no reply from other mail carriers would come as a(n) __________ to her.

__________, today, we saw Anderson bring four boxes of letters to me from around the country. These letters were so __________, filled with stories about family, pets and a sense of kindness. But there was something __________ those in them. People felt __________ — some for the first time in a long time. “I work alone in a small rural post office…” “Not many people think about how __________ we work…” Daniel wrote back seriously.

I’m sharing this not because I’m proud, but because it’s relatively __________, if we take the time, to give others __________ they need to be good. We all want to be seen, known and __________. Send a letter. Give a call. Take a step of bravery, like Daniel.

The day before Mother’s Day this year, police received a call from Doris, a heavy-hearted wife. Her husband Melvyn, who suffers Alzheimer's disease, had gone_______from the Little Rock, Arkansas home.

Police found Melvyn two blocks from their home, unable to tell officers where he _______．However, as to where he was going, he wasn’t _______ he was buying his _______ flowers for Mother's Day, as he had every year since she gave birth to their first child．

Melvyn’s condition has been slowly _______ since he was diagnosed with the disease three years ago. His wife has become her husband’s carer, watching _______ as the cruel disease _______her husband’s memories and personality away from him．

Officers intended to take the elderly man straight home—but Melvyn was having _______ of that.” He was pretty _______.” Officer Troy told CBS, “he wasn’t going home ____________ he got those flowers.” So the officers decided to lend him a ____________, secretly stopping in at a local supermarket and helping him ____________ a bunch of beautiful cream-colored roses．“I didn't have a __________；we had to get those flowers, ” Officer Troy says. The ____________ officers even secretly slipped the cashier some extra cash when Melvyn couldn’t ____________ the bill.

Doris was ____________ when she saw her husband of 60 years walking up their front stairs in the company of the police officers, but her relief turned to ____________when he presented her with the flowers．

“As he came up those steps, and I saw those roses and the smile on his face, I was touched ____________, “Dons told CBS, “I just said, thank you, thank you, because I saw his ____________.”

“It’s special, because even though his mind doesn’t remember everything, his heart ____________.”

I grew up on a farm.   My parents often ___during meals how everything on the table except the sugar and salt came from the ___.   Dad was also a carpenter besides ___the farm.   That fall, he was working on a house ___the ladder(梯子) broke.   His back was broken.   He stayed in the hospital for weeks, permitting his bones to recover ___.   On Thanksgiving, Dad was still there.   That year my uncle ___with cousins to give my family a ___— preparing our year’s supply of pork.   After Dad returned home, he was in a back brace(支架), unable to ___.   I was too young to realize our family had no money coming in as another holiday ___.

One night we heard a car coming.   Running out quickly, we kids were ____about who was visiting.   Holding a(n) ____filled with money, our neighbor Peggy was at the door.   She told us she had ____money in the community and was here to ____it.

Dad tried to ____it, but Peggy would have none of it.   "Whenever someone’s house is broken in our community, you fix it.   Now it’s our ____," she said.

That evening, I understood what being a good ____was and that because my parents were good neighbors, their kindness would be ____.   They were used to being the ____and not the receivers of such generous acts.   They were ____to help others and continued all of their lives to show us kids the value of ____.