chapter 21, a study in kindness

people always seem genuinely surprised when you extend kindness to them, as if kindness is the last thing they expect out of this World. people celebrate 12 days of kindness in an effort to evoke sympathy in people's hearts.

I even find myself having to choose kindness when I really want to choose the opposite.

Nehemiah 9:17

"...But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. Therefore, you did not desert them."

When you abound in love, you abound in kindness. When you're in Christ, you don't think twice about loving people through kindness, compassion, patience and grace.

Let kindness abound where darkness seems to win.  

Proverbs 19:22

"What a person desires is unfailing love;"

People need to see love. They need us to show kindness in a World where love is fading + is being replaced by a sorry copy that will never satisfy like the real love of Christ does.

Abound in kindness, let it overflow.

 Kindness upon kindness.

Further reading: 40 best Bible verse about kindness