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PROVERBS 31 JHOANNA DE GUZMAN

WHEN BEING

KIND GETS

Underrated

(HOW TO VALUE THE
VIRTUE OF KINDNESS)

“Be kind, for everyone is

fighting a hard battle.”- Plato

rue enough, being kind is so underrated things that happens to us. When life gets rough, we get
nowadays. Thinking that it is way too stressed, when things seem to be doing well, and then
easier to treat other people the way they we get happy. When someone treats us badly, we try
“deserve” it, after all, we live in a cruel to get back with revenge and sadly when someone is
Tworld. nice, we tend to take them for granted. We based our
It’s hard to offer compassion when people get mean emotions on our circumstances, we swim in life and
It’s hard to be respectful when someone is rude glides on whatever it has to offer.
It’s hard to give when we have nothing left We fail to realize that a lot of people are a walking
It’s hard to love when we constantly feel rejected mess. And we are being treated badly not because we
It’s hard to be kind because, life is tough. deserve it or they’re just mean, but because sometimes,
But Ephesians 4:32 says, “Be kind to one another, we just didn’t know that they are breaking on the
tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ inside. The world has a way to break each one of us,
forgave you.” the gentler, the tough, the
The bible gently reminds us that, we can’t just do innocent..
what we want to do. We have to view other people in a We can’t control it, but we
different light. As much as possible, we must not take can control our reactions.
things personally. Because most of the times, people We can be kind.
just usually do things not because of us, but because Let us be kind, since
the fight is hard. Now, this doesn’t mean that we should we don’t know how our
become a doormat and let people walk all over us. By kindness might change
all means, set boundaries and defend yourself. But that’s someone else’s life and even
an external behavior. On the inside, be kind. our own life. . PROVERBS 31
We live in such a way where we often react on By Jhoanna B. de Guzman

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