Kindness Matters
Author: Anne Deidre Smith
 We all have the choice to be kind in every moment of everyday. Kindness matters as the love, mercy and compassion we demonstrate to each other creates an everlasting, eternal bond. As of April 15, 2007, it will be six years that my father passed away. The lesson of kindness that he taught me is timeless. The passing of my father was the single most awakening moment in my life. I had never known such deep devastation and loss. However, it was at his funeral and the many cards sent to me afterward that resounded what I knew about his life,
it was his kindness that people remembered.
Every relationship we have holds an opportunity for growth at the very least. As people come and go in our lives it is important to remember that within each encounter is an opportunity for holiness. Often in life we are challenged by our relationships with people. We all experience stress and pressure. Kindness is a choice. Every day we may be confronted by negativity at work and with our personal relationships. A natural reaction may be to lash out because of our own stress. God gave us free will. With that said, if we take the time to see someone else's point of view, we begin to develop compassion. A good rule of thumb may be to wait 24 hours before we respond to a perceived unkindness from others.
The way we respond to people in our lives matters on so many levels. The easy way out is to fight fire with fire. Again with free will this is a choice. We all have the opportunity to take the higher road and not respond in anger. Only love is real. We are all spiritual beings in a physical world. We all have experienced drama in our lives. We often connect with each other through drama which often contains anger, jealousy and resentment. This is may be conscious or unconscious. As Dr. Barbara De Angelis so eloquently writes in her incredibly transformational book "How did I Get Here?" There may be a "loving conspiracy" in your life. She writes that is "what happens when consciously or unconsciously, those closest to us undermine our efforts to grow or change."
Sometimes we may need to let go of people in our lives with love. Archangel Michael can help us cut the cords with people that we have connected with through the lower energies of anger, jealousy, resentment, etc; all that is not love. Ask him to remove all cords from you that are not of love. These lower energy cords will drain us. Remember that your Higher Self is your true reality. The cords of love that we connect with each other will remain in eternity. Be kind in every moment, as you will create an everlasting bond with everyone, in every situation. That is Heaven on Earth.
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