May 25, 2011 Wednesday: 5th Week of Easter (A)
A little kindness goes a long way
from The Hidden Power of Kindness by Fr. Lawrence G. Lovasik
The amount of kindness bears no proportion to the effects of kindness. People generally do not look at what you have had to give up in order to do for them what you have done. They see only the kindness. It is not what you do, but how you do it that matters.
The least kind action is greater than the greatest wrong. The smallest kindness can lift a heavy weight. It reaches far and travels swiftly. And a kind action lasts a long time. The doing of it is only the beginning. Years of estrangement can hardly take the sweetness out of a kind deed.
The more you try to repay kind deeds, the further off you seem from having repaid them. The obligations of gratitude seem to lengthen and deepen, so that your life seems to be delightfully committed to a profusion of kind actions.
You cannot pass a day without meeting with opportunities for kind actions. And kind acts are as easy as they are frequent. When kindness calls for self-denial, sacrifice is noble and rewarding. You always gain more than you lose. You gain even outwardly, but the inward gain is greater. The wonderful effects of a kind deed make you wonder why you do not do more kind things.
from The Hidden Power of Kindness by Fr. Lawrence G. Lovasik
The least kind action is greater than the greatest wrong. The smallest kindness can lift a heavy weight. It reaches far and travels swiftly. And a kind action lasts a long time. The doing of it is only the beginning. Years of estrangement can hardly take the sweetness out of a kind deed.
The more you try to repay kind deeds, the further off you seem from having repaid them. The obligations of gratitude seem to lengthen and deepen, so that your life seems to be delightfully committed to a profusion of kind actions.
You cannot pass a day without meeting with opportunities for kind actions. And kind acts are as easy as they are frequent. When kindness calls for self-denial, sacrifice is noble and rewarding. You always gain more than you lose. You gain even outwardly, but the inward gain is greater. The wonderful effects of a kind deed make you wonder why you do not do more kind things.
