There is a little girl that walks pass my house with her mom a few times a week. I have never met her personally but when she sees me, she never fails to wave and to keep waving until I am no longer in her sight. This little girl's kindness never fails to comfort my heart and remind me of God's unfailing love. She ALWAYS looks for me when she passes and keeps looking until she cannot see my house anymore. I know, I have watched her without her knowing it. She continues to turn around and look toward my back door hoping I will appear so she can wave. And you know I do whatever I can do to get to the back door so she can see me and I can wave back. Forgetting herself, this little one loves those in her path. She shares the love God has placed in her heart like you might share an ice cream cone. She makes my life kinder just by her being in it.
We never really know what someone might be facing or going through. There is much grief and sorrow in this life. FOR THIS REASON AND THIS REASON ALONE...BE KIND. This little girl as she passes my house leaves a rainbow in her wake. The air is fresher...the grass greener...the sky more blue. Put on the love and kindness of Jesus every day. Be unexpectedly kind and loving to those God has put in your path. Make the moment a better place to be for your family...for your husband...for your wife....for your children...for your mom and your dad...for your friends...for the strangers you meet daily. Forget yourself and remember love.
I close with some of the most beautiful exhortations in Scripture...
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.--Colossians 3:12-17
