Kindness Cost you Nothing... Just a thought!

I know that I fall short. Sometimes I can be ill tempered and too hasty. But I know this is something I wanted to work on and actively do as well. I no longer wanted to be the person who weaponized what I've gone through to try to diminish what someone else was going through. Because I know the things I've been through almost cost me my life and now that I am in a space of gratitude, it also has created a space for grace, not only for myself, but for others.

Transcript is a little wonky for the video but here it is!

We say that everyone goes through something and people usually mean that to be condescending; they don't say it to bring peace or grace to the situation. They're just saying that to diminish or negate what you're saying- But because everyone goes through something, that means that we're doing this life thing together.

That means we're going through hard situations together. And it's- iit's an important way to bring grace and understanding into any situation. And instead of using that phrase for a negative like, oh, it doesn't matter what you're going through because everyone goes through something, we should bring peace and love and kindness into those situations because truly you never know what someone's going through.

Just because what didn't kill you did made you stronger. That could be someone else's breaking point and God never wants us to go through our breaking points, to break us to where the point to where we lose our lives or we just give up on life but to make a stronger and not everyone, survives that process.

And it's up to us as human beings going on this experience together. We're all in this together to provide that support.

That grace- in love that- everyone needs to get through something. That is the choice that God wants us to make with someone comes to us, and vents to us, and talks to us about our problems. And even though we might have gone through worse.

it does not mean someone is going through less.

You may have survived.

You might survive one of the hardest storms you've ever faced, and this person comes to you and they're like, oh my God, like-

They are telling you about these storms, they're going through and you're like "girl, that ain't nothing but a thunderstorm! I went through a whole tornado!"

But it doesn't matter; there is still grace allowed for even small situations.

Nothing-

if God doesn't-

When we are crying over the smallest things, then we get over it and then we have hindsight. We're like God. Why was I crying about that? God does not treat anything that we go through as small or insignificant, but he treats everything with the same grace, love, and patience that he would even want when he knows you're going through one of your hardest tests.

And I know there's a limit to our grace because we're not God, there's a limit to our grace theirs limits to our mercies or there are limits to our patients, but is so important for us to at least try to give that to somebody else. You never know how much that will change their life, and something I've been saying so much recently is kindness-

Kindness, don't cost a thing. Kindness, cost nothing. It cost nothing.