Holy Cow

What a crazy couple days! And the rest of the week will be just as crazed! I love it when Dave gets a bug up his butt and wants to redo furniture/organize. He cleared up so much space in the living/older boys room. Of course he got rid of one of the dressers and I'm still not sure that was a good idea, but it looks so much better and made so much more room. I can always buy more dressers once we put the addition in and they have their own room, right?

Right now we're butting heads about installing central air. I see it as a waste of $3500. I know that's the best deal out there and it would help the resell in a couple years but dammit I want my kitchen done! I guess as long as he at least finishes the one side of the kitchen it will be ok. I'll just have to hit IKEA and get my shelving system for the dining room then I can use that bookcase in the kitchen too. I liked it better when he said "do whatever she wants"....

Shelly

Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 2ND Peter 1:5-7


Have you noticed that the busier you get, the less you seem to show kindness to others? That's because kindness is 'the fruit of the Spirit', not a product of the flesh. Kindness doesn't happen in a vacuum, or as the result of a good Sunday morning sermon. You have to practice it. You have to do what Peter says: 'Make an effort to show... kindness.'

Before William McKinley became President of the United States, he was riding to his congressional office one morning on a train. A sick woman got on and, unable to find a seat, clutched an overhead strap next to one of McKinley's political colleagues. Pathetically, this colleague hid behind his newspaper to avoid offering her his seat.

Immediately, McKinley rose, gave her his seat and took her place in the aisle. Years later when he was President, this same colleague was recommended for the position of ambassador, but McKinley refused. He said, 'If his kindness is of the quality he showed that morning on the tram, I fear what he might do representing us in a foreign land.' The disappointed congressman never did learn why McKinley chose someone else for the job.

What good are tireless efforts fueled by personal ambition, or a desire to serve that's rooted in a need to control? Face it; without kindness what good are all our titles, traditions, testimonies and theology?

If you don't know, the answer is found in the 13th chapter of 1st Corinthians, verse 2. Here it is: And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

So today please, make up your mind to practice kindness!



Pastor Hersch