Father Henri J. M. Nouwen’s Daily Meditation – Tuesday, February
4, 2014 “Becoming Kind”
Kindness is a beautiful human attribute. When we say, "She
is a kind person" or "He surely was kind to me," we express a
very warm feeling. In our competitive and often violent world, kindness is not
the most frequent response. But when we encounter it we know that we are
blessed. Is it possible to grow in kindness, to become a kind person? Yes, but
it requires discipline. To be kind means to treat another person as your
"kin," your intimate relative. We say, "We are kin" or
"He is next of kin." To be kind is to reach out to someone as being
of "kindred" spirit.
Here is the great challenge: All people, whatever their color,
religion, or sex, belong to humankind and are called to be kind to one another,
treating one another as brothers and sisters. There is hardly a day in our
lives in which we are not called to this.
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