I have no doubt that I would feel worse if I wasn't focusing on developing these virtues. I know that my pain would be worse. I'm learning how much my thoughts and my mind effect my body.
I have no doubt that I would feel worse if I wasn't focusing on developing these virtues. I know that my pain would be worse. I'm learning how much my thoughts and my mind effect my body.
It’s been almost 3 months in my challenge to see if gaining more Christ-Like love could help my physical health. I’ve been focusing on the virtues listed in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.
I started this journey with patience. This month I added kindness. I’m learning a lot about patience and kindness, and...
Instead of thinking that I need to clean and organize the whole craft room, I am challenging myself to put away 25 things in the craft room every day.
25 items aren’t very many things in a room that has been used as a dumping ground. I count everything I pick up and put away. That may be a poster board, and it may be a gum wrapper or anything in between. For the first 3 days, you couldn’t even tell that I did anything. I worked hard to show patience and trust that doing a little was better than doing nothing.
Kindness means looking outside of ourselves. It is about noticing the people around us and being aware of their needs. My sweet son Justin is a wonderful example of this. He is profoundly disabled and he has a lot of challenges, but he always takes the time to say hi, smile at a stranger, or tel...
I’m curious about the inclusion of the virtue of kindness with the other attributes that follow. I would have said that most of the other attributes are all part of kindness. But it is really nice to focus on each small part, so I looked to see what Kindness actually is. I looked at a lot of definitions of Kindness. Most of them were similar, but the one that I like the best is this one.
“Kindness is the quality of being gentle, caring, and helpful.”