Kindness is easy to show to those we love, but to everybody else?
Paul talks in Corinthians about the attributes that make love real and effective. As we read the list it is clear that if emotions were to rule the outworking of love, some of the attributes mentioned would certainly be cut from the list!
The love that God calls us to share is about our relationship with everyone, it does not filter or exclude, it is not optional or easy. In fact sometimes showing love actually means that we have to take time out and plan to do something if we are able to share this love with others.
As we focus on kindness this week, I remembered something that I came across on the internet whilst doing some background work for a lesson on the rights of a child. It struck me as being so simple and yet so effective. Yet also not something that comes naturally.
The challenge was to share acts of kindness randomly!
Randomly, not just to a chosen few, not just to the ones I know I love, but to anyone. Yes even a stranger!
If you want some examples of what this looks like in practice, a quick search on YouTube, will bring up a whole host of videos that can inspire us. So tomorrow in assembly with our year 6 classes I will be challenging them to do just that. To see how many different random acts of kindness they can come up with in the week.
But hopefully this won't be limited to just two classes, maybe the whole school will join in, maybe even you!
