The Mill- Sifting Through the Stuff of Life.

What is kindness?  When scripture says be kind one to another what does it mean?  What I think is kind may not be what you think is kind.  So if you decide to be kind to me by not telling me I have a food in my teeth,  I would say that’s not kind at all.   Or maybe you give me a gift thinking you are being kind, but I don’t really like the gift and it turns out it’s a picture that I don’t want to hang on my wall and I have to figure out what I’m going to do when you visit.  That’s just not kind.   So in my own life I’ve put a definition on kindness as in one of the attributes of the Holy Spirit.  So here goes a mere mortal trying to further explain God and probably not very well.  Kindness is doing or being what is useful and profitable to someone other than yourself.  When you show Gods’ kindness and operate in Kindness it’s never with yourself in mind but always with others in mind.  Doing or Being what is useful and profitable (Kindness) is the cure to social awkardness.  Just look around in any situation and ask “How can I help?”  Sometimes that mean you just need to be available and other times it means you need to act.  I encourage everyone to look for times to do what is useful and profitable to others.  That is real kindness.