The Power of Kindness and Humility

Christ teaches us that we are to respond to any attack or wrong done to us with kindness. Pagans exchange an attack with a counter-attack. Christians know by humility that we are all capable of horrendeous wrongs and that we must appeal to the grace of God to bring a kind act to our brothers and sisters. It is easy to love your friends...but it is not so easy to love your enemies. But Jesus told us that we MUST love our enemies. That one act of kindness, offered up to God, can counter many grieveous sins. An act of kindness done through the grace of God can even counter the effects and temptations to act out in impurity. Acting out of kindness and humility toward someone who you feel has wronged you can be an act of mortification that is more powerful than fasting for a day.

Not only that, but when we repay an unkind act against ourselves with an act of kindness...conversions happen. More people have converted to Catholicism because of a kind act than by any other means. St. Francis de Sales said: "You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar."

St. Terese the Little Flower showed us that we can do great things for God if we just offer up all our little sufferings. That includes offering up our petty grievences against our friends and enemies.

It is only by kindness that we can lead each other to holiness. That is our purpose...to Know God, to Love God, and to Serve God. To know God is to recognize Him in every single human being on this planet. Friends, family and enemies. To love God is to Love one another as HE loves us. To Serve God is to do the Will of the Father...I don't believe the Will of the Father includes being unkind to people we feel have wronged us. On the contray it REQUIRES us to repay an unkind act toward us with a prayer for that person and an act of kindness in return.

Think of what an incredible place this world could be if EVERY Christian, or if even 10% of ALL Christians were to behave in this manner.

Think about it...and do it...by the Grace of Almighty God!