JOURNAL/BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER!

JOURNAL/BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER




CAN YOU GIVE without counting the COST? And can you continue to do it to someone-FOR SOMEONE when you are being challenged EVERY step of the way?


CAN YOU ALWAYS have a welcoming SMILE-always be COURTEOUS-send AFFIRMING e-mail messages-and CONTINUE to lend a helping hand to anyone in need?


CAN YOU always have an UNDERSTANDING presence and listening ear for everyone?


ALL OF these are little acts of kindness-and most of all can you do ALL of these things WITHOUT patting yourself on the back-just do them because as a CHRISTIAN-that is what you are called upon to do-just because YOU BELIEVE IN GOD and believe in the PERSON of Jesus Christ


KEEP DOING for others-and don't count the cost-DON'T EXPECT GRATITUDE-That is the REAL QUESTION all CHRISTIANS must ask themselves: CAN I truly give without keeping score-without counting the cost


IT IS a great day to be ALIVE in GOD'S LOVE for us and a great day to GIVE OURSELVES AWAY










BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER




In chapter 22
Of Saint Matthew's GOSPEL
Jesus gives us
The two greatest commandments


Of course
The first commandment is:


“LOVE the Lord your God
With all your heart
With all your soul
And with ALL your mind” Matthew 22:37


“And the second
Is like Unto it
Thou shalt love thy neighbor
As thyself” Matthew 22:39


And INCLUDED
In LOVING our neighbor
Is BEING KIND to that person


“For you have said
My KINDNESS
Is established forever” Psalm 89:3


In other words
Be kind to everyone
AT ALL TIMES


VERY difficult to do
But something
We can all aspire to do


And while
We should be kind
To everyone


We should be especially kind
To the NEEDY


“He who despises his neighbors
SINS
BUT BLESSED
Is he
Who is kind to the NEEDY” Proverbs 14:21


“He who OPPRESSES the poor
Shows contempt
For their maker


But whoever
IS KIND to the needy
HONORS GOD” Proverbs 14:31


And it doesn't often
Take a lot of effort
To be KIND to someone


A warm smile
A handshake
A HUG


Maybe a birthday
Or a get-well card


Just some little action
That says:


“I KNOW
What you are going through
And I know
What you have been through”


Just some little action
That lets a person
Know that
You CARE about hem


And in James 1
James tells us
WHAT PURE RELIGION IS


“RELIGION that God Our Father
Accepts as PURE AND FAULTLESS
Is this:


TO LOOK AFTER orphans and widows
In their distress


And to keep oneself
From being polluted
By the world” James 1:27


So LOVE ONE ANOTHER
and always remember
To keep being KIND


Robert P. Wallman
5-15-14




Ps Inspired by an article in LIVING FAITH magazine by Father James McKarns


MISC.WITNESS 5-23-14


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