About this time last year, Donald Miller posted this on his blog:
The one thing my very conservative friends and my liberal friends have in common is that they are extremely kind. I think kind people are kind and mean people are mean and it hardly matters whether they are conservative or not. It has more to do with irritable bowels, I think, or a persons controlling personality vs. their ability to trust Gods grace and speak His truth without associating a persons response to that truth with their own threatened identity. Regardless, I keep the kind friends and slyly slip away from the mean ones. Life’s too short.
Sometimes we associate kindness with weakness or fear of confrontation. We justify loud, angry, or rude behavior by believing that they are necessary to confront evil. We assume that because we are confronting evil, we are doing good. But if we confront evil without kindness, we are the blind leading the blind. Paul tells us that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Kindness is not for wimps.
It’s a sign of God at work in your life.
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