For our Friday Favorites today, The Morning Thing celebrated Random Acts of Kindness Week. The hosts shared about a time when someone showed kindness to them.
Click HERE to hear from Marcy, Allison and Ricky.
How will you be kind today? Who will you bless today?
Click HERE for more information on Random Acts of Kindness Week.
Every year, Random Acts of Kindness Week is celebrated February 14-20, and the National Random Acts of Kindness Day is tomorrow (Friday Feb. 17).
This morning on the show, we shared some of the history behind Random Acts of Kindness. It was a term first coined by Anne Herbert in 1982 in California. She wrote the phrase “practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty” on a placemat in response to some violent phrase that someone else had written. She wanted to end senseless violence. She wrote a children’s book in 1993 to teach children about showing kindness to others. Since then, we’ve celebrated Random Acts of Kindness.
There’s many ways to celebrate! You can perform those random acts of kindness for other people, read books that inspire you, and help inspire other people.
Click HERE to read more about Random Acts of Kindness Week.
We also shared some stories about how people have been impacted by random acts of kindness. We shared stories of snow days, holding the door open for others, helping a stranger in need, and being present with other people. These stories are inspiring and will give you some ideas of how you can show kindness during Random Acts of Kindness Week.
Click HERE to read more stories from the official Random Acts of Kindness website.
This week’s Meet the Staff Monday on WNZR features freshman, Abby Almodovar.
Abby is from New Philadelphia, Ohio. Her major is Communication & Media (Digital Media).
Abby shares what brought her to MVNU and how she found her way to WNZR.
She shares some favorites including her favorite memory from this school year, her favorite food, artist, and what she loves to do on the weekends.
We also learn about Abby’s Puerto Rican heritage.
You can also learn more about Abby with WNZR’s Rapid Fire.
Click HERE to enjoy the conversation!
Today on The Morning Thing, Marcy shared some insight on marriage from FamilyLife.
Have you ever done a detox?
The purpose is to take the bad stuff OUT, so that the GOOD stuff can help improve your body and your overall health.
Have you ever thought about a Marriage Detox?
Click HERE to read the full devotional from Janel Breitenstein.
What could a marriage detox look like?
Nix the junk food.
Snack on whole foods.
What would it look like to feed your marriage nutritiously and without contaminants, getting back to the basics?
Get some air.
The overwhelmed, overcommitted, exhausted version of the two of you—and your marriage—isn’t one where any marriage thrives or heals. It’s hard to clear the byproducts, so to speak, of irritability, resentment, and feeling used or unseen. What’s one thing you could stand to clear from your schedule?
Get off the couch.
It could be time for your family to burn some of its energy for purposes beyond itself. After all, as Proverbs teaches us, when we refresh others, we will be refreshed ourselves (Proverbs 11:25).
Read on for ways to avoid letting social media ruin your marriage.
The Morning Thing Friday Favorites 2/10/23 – LOVE Songs
For our Morning Thing Friday Favorites this week, the hosts shared their favorite love songs on WNZR. Happy Valentine’s Day (early)! 🙂
Click HERE to hear from Marcy, Ricky and Allison.
Marcy likes the classic song “I Will Be Here” from Steven Curtis Chapman
Ricky likes the song “When God Made You” by Newsong and Natalie Grant
Allison likes the song “God Gave Me You” by Dave Barnes
Valentine’s Day is a great time for your kids to get creative, especially with their classroom parties! Today we shared some fun ideas for Valentine’s Day cards that will be a hit in your children’s classroom!
Click HERE to get some fun new ideas.
We asked some of our WNZR staff members to share some of their favorite memories from Valentine’s Day growing up. Click HERE to hear stories from Marcy, Judah, Dylan, Allison, and Catherine. Catherine also gave us this video of her gift that she talks about. Be sure to check out the video below!
Valentine’s Day is a week away! Have you started shopping for your significant other? Now’s the best time to get started. This morning on the show, we talked about 21 outside the box gift ideas. These gifts include arranging a weekend getaway, personalized jewelry, a flowering plant, exploring a new city, concert or sports tickets, and much more! New and unique gift ideas can be really meaningful for you and your significant other, so start thinking about it today.
Click HERE for the full list of gift ideas from Merrick’s Art.
Today, The Morning Thing shared the good news that today, 2/6/23 is Pay A Compliment Day.
This day was started in 1995 by a lady named, Adrienne Koopersmith. She was riding a bus in Chicago and saw the drive be kind to someone who was cold and wanted to get on the bus. This person wasn’t at a bus stop, but the driver stopped anyway. Adrienne wanted to compliment him for this act of kindness. She realized that sharing a compliment for him actually made her day better.
Read about the history of this special day HERE.
We shared 5 reasons why you should give compliments. It is GOOD for YOU!
Click HERE to read the full article on thedailycase.edu
Today for our Friday Favorites, The Morning Thing hosts shared their favorite NEW songs to WNZR.
Click HERE to hear from our hosts.
Marcy loves “Won’t Let Me Go” fry Sanctus Real and Francesca Batistelli
Allison loves “Soul Worth Saving” by Apollo LTD
Ricky loves “There Is Freedom” by Josh Baldwin
January 31 has some fun holidays! Today on The Morning Thing, we celebrated National Hot Chocolate Day and National Plan a Vacation Day.
Warm up with a nice cup of hot chocolate and learn the history behind the sweet drink HERE.
Allison and Ricky shared their favorite hot chocolate recipes. Allison shared a recipe for Polar Express Hot Chocolate, click HERE to try it. Ricky had a dairy-free hot chocolate recipe to share HERE.
It’s also National Plan a Vacation Day! We shared some fun things you can do on your next family vacation. Check out some ideas from the Family Vacationist HERE
Rise and Shine 