Who remembers the bracelets "everyone" would wear with the letters W.W.J.D. sewn on them? I remember mine. It was turquoise with white lettering. I can even recall buying it at Meijer while my mom was grocery shopping.

I remember thinking, "Those are the bracelets everyone at school is wearing. I need to have one too." I bought the bracelet and put it on first thing Monday morning. I thought I was cool for wearing that bracelet. After all, everyone had one.

I remember that memory very fondly, but question my own childhood judgment. Don't get me wrong. W.W.J.D. is a great message.

However, it is more than a message and is certainly more than a bracelet someone wears to be "cool." Those initials should be the question we ask ourselves every day.

What would Jesus do? How would he want you to live your life? Are you living your life in his likeness? Those questions are heavy for anyone, but think about them for a minute. Instead of looking at your life as a whole, look at how you live day by day.

Think about all of the awkward

elevator rides you have taken with another person you don't know. Some of those rides seem like they last for several minutes at a time. Why not start a conversation with the person next to you? Ask that person, who is a complete stranger, how his or her day is going. Just try it. Sure, the "normal act" would be to face forward and not make a sound.

Why act normal? Why continuously

follow "the code?" Following

"the code" is just as wrong as wearing the W.W.J.D. bracelet, without answering the question.

You never know what that person

will say, but at least you took the risk of kindness.

Remember, what the person says does matter, but is far less important

than his or her reaction. Notice the little things. Don't take pride in the fact that you reached out. Take joy in the fact that he or she smiled. You may never see that person again, but you won't forget his or her smile.

Rachel Joy Scott, Martyr at Columbine high school, was a girl with a message. Her message: Live with kindness. She said, "I have this theory, that if one person can go out of their way to show compassion,

then it will start a chain reaction of the same."

No act of compassion is small. If it were, no one would talk on elevators. Students would never thank their professor for all of the help they gave them throughout

the semester. And, moms and dads wouldn't call their child, who lives thousands of miles away, just to say "I love you."

Living life day by day with kindness and compassion is a way of answering the question "What would Jesus Do?" You don't have to be rich to give. You just have to have the desire to reach out and show kindness.