KINDESS IN PEOPLE

In the beginning, the elohim created skies and earth.

Welcome back. Let's think about God as kind.

I have been reflecting on God as love and applying that to 1 Corinthians 13.  I began with, "Love is kind."

It has been said and preached that we are God’s hands, eyes, and mouths. Through us, God is kind to all the world.

The smallest kindnesses add up. 

Thanking your wife out of the blue for making you happy, telling the person who put together a new teacher conference what a wonderful job she did, getting up from a table to get a drink of water and asking a stranger sitting there if there is anything they need you to bring back for them, ponying up for someone who is short at the cash register, telling a kid you’re happy to see him or her, waving and smiling at old folks, talking to old folks and listening to them, telling the person pushing grocery carts into a store that you notice how hard they work when you shop there, texting your children out of the blue and telling them that you miss them and you look forward to seeing them soon, telling our God of love that you love the goodness in God and the goodness in the world that looks very much like it and you want the world to see that goodness in you.

The kindness of God is known through us. God is love. Love is kind indeed when we are kind.

John Wesley wrote, “Do all the good you can, all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can.”

Truly being kind is the same as being good. I'll shout out an “amen” to that.

Blessings…