{"id":1572,"date":"2015-09-03T14:04:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-few-kind-words\/"},"modified":"2015-09-03T14:04:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T18:04:34","slug":"a-few-kind-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-few-kind-words\/","title":{"rendered":"A Few Kind Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sr. Nun Other<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If God said, &#8220;You may choose one gift of the Spirit and become that gift,&#8221; which would you choose\u2014love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, or self-control? \u00a0Me? I&#8217;d choose kindness because our world surely needs it.<\/p>\n<p>Kindness is hard to define and difficult to achieve. It&#8217;s situational, not one dimensional, and best occurs when there&#8217;s an absence of agenda on the part of the giver. Genuine kindness is closely knit to truth; it unselfishly expands the capacity to love.<\/p>\n<p>I end with this wonderful verse:<i> \u201cDo not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.\u201d\u00a0 Proverbs 3:3<\/i><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150903_135221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5624791 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/of.communityofjesus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150903_135221-e1441303242280-858x1024.jpg\" alt=\"From the floor of the Church of the Transfiguration, the acorn is native to the Holy Land and a traditional symbol of kindness\" width=\"584\" height=\"697\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the floor of the Church of the Transfiguration, the acorn is native to the Holy Land and a traditional symbol of kindness<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Follow us<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/communityofjesus.org<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheCommunityOfJesus\/~4\/2oFtnzBKOLk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sr. Nun Other If God said, &#8220;You may choose one gift of the Spirit and become that gift,&#8221; which would you choose\u2014love, joy, peace, long suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, or self-control? \u00a0Me? I&#8217;d choose kindness because our world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/a-few-kind-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paraclete-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.paracletepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}