Good morning and happy Saturday, I pray that each of you is having a wonderful day, enjoying the remnants of Thanksgiving and making ready for CHRISTmas. It is a cold morning here, 27 degrees with a bit of humidity causing it to feel even colder. In prayer this morning I am behind the glass looking out, my old bones don't seem to mesh very well with the cold of the morning! I sat in silence for a long while and was guided by the Holy Spirit to the world COMPASSION. I sat and thought about the times I could have been compassionate and wasn't, hanging my head in shame, I though about the phrase "forgive and forget" and I asked God..how many times do I forgive and forget before I just get so tired of trying, as soon as the words slipped from my mouth I thought of Christ on the cross, at all who had hurt him, at those who had turned their back on him and still he died so that we could live. I thought about our Father in Heaven for all the times we come to him literally begging for a miracle, he gives us a way and we take and then tend to back way off until we need him again. I am so far from being perfect, I have so much to learn and so much growing to do. I feel ashamed at the way I act at times, I allow the hurt of others to deter what should be my main focus, "walking in Christ's footsteps" I will make repair to the person I was not compassionate to and I will continue to ask God to guide me when it comes to this person so that I tolerate more easily. If you have occasion to let your compassionate side slip I hope that you will pray for knowledge, as to how to show compassion thus pleasing our father in heaven. I ask Father God to bless each of you with peace, calm, and comfort, that this day might be one filled with heartfelt love and friendship. Love in Christ to each of you and please, please continue in prayer with me for my sweet friend caregiving to her frail mom, for my sweet friend watching her beloved aunt wither away with kidney disease and for my sweet daughter carrying my first grandbaby. I ask mercy, grace and kindness for each of you, in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.
I would like to congratulate the COLUMBIA ROUGHNECKS on their win last night, they are now Region 4 champions! All the way to state boys, all the way to state!!!!
Random Acts of Kindness
A friend called me recently to tell me that one of her daughter's teachers had committed suicide. Needless to say, everyone involved was extremely upset by this.
Many looked upon this as a selfish act on the part of the teacher. I thought to myself how quick we are to judge another after the fact. And how terribly slow we are to recognize the walking wounded all around us.
The news of this teacher's suicide reminded me of a story I read about an elderly woman who had decided to take her life one morning, but someone had stopped to feed the pigeons with her in the park and the kindness of that one stranger changed her mind and saved her life. We never know what is in another person's heart. What level of pain they may be going through. And in some cases, the pain may be so great that living no longer seems an option to them.
We may never know the sometimes immense consequences upon another, of an unkind word, a thoughtless deed, or a hasty decision made from an unexamined heart.
Each day, everyone of us, has a new opportunity to make a huge difference in this world. I suppose that is why I decided to choose kindness as the theme for this issue, because I felt it was so important.
If I had one dream for humanity, it would be that tomorrow morning we would all wake up with amnesia. We would then see the world for the first time, with new eyes, the way a new born baby sees it, except that we would be in a grown up body.
We would have no conception of what was considered beautiful or good or important according to society's ridiculous standard of worth. Everything and everyone would be a blessed opportunity for us, just the way they are. Life would be waiting with another possibility to be all that we could be. Another opportunity to practice the gift of kindness in every moment. Another chance to rise above our mere mortal existence and for that one grand moment in time to walk among the gods. Another day to love.
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