Love vs Loving Kindness

I was reading a commentary on Proverbs and there was a very very good explanation of the difference between love and loving kindness.

Here is the story.  A little girl goes to her mother and asks for bread and butter.  The mother gives her bread and butter, that is love, BUT the mother also put jam on the bread and butter without being asked.  That is loving kindness.

God's loving kindness to us often goes unnoticed.  For me it is little things in my day to day life.  Maybe I need to start looking a little harder for His loving kindness in my life and saying thank you.