Kindness
November 1, 2006True kindness does not end in good thoughts about people alone. Any good thought should manifest in a good act. It should show in open hands ready to grab another one helplessly needing a pull from the pit of his own misfortunes. True enough that good deed is not merely praying for people but of doing something to people. It is the deed which is the culmination of a good thought and noble desire. A good heart does not rest on good intentions alone, but is the foundation of a rightful act of touching people’s lives by example.
You touch not merely by the person that you are, but who they are or what they become because of you. Did they realize the need to respond to others more sensitively, did you inspire them to do an act of service that improved the situation of others, where by your example they likewise desire to share their blessings? Touching lives is planting in them the same seed that grew in you, the seed of humble and noble desire to love others, even in the littlest way you know.
Kindness, therefore, is a prayer that culminates in a deed. It is loving a stranger by filling his stomach that hasn’t received food for days; it is picking up a bum on a restless street to feel the comfort of a nursing home; it is cleaning the wounds of people in their worse physical condition; it is healing brokenness of a restless heart eager for recovery. Kindness is listening to someone even in his silence.. for there are silent anguishes, there is a loud cry in the heart that could not break even into feeble into uttering.
Kindness is seeing people — seeing their need to be loved and to feel belonged. And upon seeing comes responding…That is my idea. That is the seed that keeps growing in me. Exactly, I do not know if it’s a sprout or a growing tree, I am just thankful it was planted there.
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