I love Christmas-time. I am blessed with great memories of the holiday and I am blessed with a healthy happy family which loves the season as well. But I am well aware that the happiest of circumstances can get stressed by the commercial holiday pressures, and by end of year reflections. Also, it has been said that the holidays magnify things - and if you are in a difficult situation, it can make it feel even more lonely and full of despair. And often desperation and difficulty is invisible to others.

I came to understand how it is impossible to understand the burdens that others carry one rainy day in 1999- the morning of my mothers funeral. I sat momentarily composed at a breakfast with my father, realizing that all the other happy folks around us had no idea how shattered our world had become. Our burdens were invisible to them. And who knows what burdens other patrons in that restaurant carried that day that were invisible to us?

So I imagine how many burdens others carry this holiday season that are invisible to to each of us. Certainly many are work related - directly or indirectly. And many others. But the great thing is that WE ALL CAN HELP! The smallest act of kindness can make the difference. Lets all commit to Jobcasers putting out great karma with small acts of kindness this season. Wave somebody into your line of traffic, give the cashier a nice smile at checkout, invite coworkers that you might not normally think of to join you at lunch for work,help someone get an interview or a good praise here on Jobcase, drop a toy into Toys-for-Tots basket- or any other small act of kindness that occurs throughout your day.

I'm enough of a dreamer to believe that this really will make the world a bit better. And with 65 million Jobcase members, if we all do it - maybe a LOT better!

So I hope you are enjoying the season too, I hope you are able to bear the invisible burdens you carry, and I hope you will join me in committing to a few small acts of kindness each day to help others with their burdens too!