Thank you for this wonderful challenge. I am in the process of trying to make new friends in a new place, and this is a great reminder that we never know where those friends are going to come from. I will carry this thought with me this week as I go to all the regular places (ballet school, karate school, softball and soccer fields, music lessons), and I’ll see who I might be kind to in order to make a new friend. A great challenge to me, as I am usually sort of shy.
Looking forward to tomorrow’s challenge!
Sweetness of Disposition
Posted by Elizabeth Foss in Faith on Monday, April 19, 2010 10:00 AM
Think: “Many a friendship, long, loyal, and self-sacrificing, rested at first on no thicker a foundation than a kind word. The two men were not likely to be friends. Perhaps each of them regarded the other’s antecedents with somewhat of distrust. They had possibly been set against each other by the circulation of gossip. Or they had been looked upon as rivals, and the success of one was regarded as incompatible with the success of the other. But a kind word, perhaps a mere report of a kind word, has been enough to set all things straight, and to be the commencement of an enduring friendship.”
—Fr. Frederick William Faber
Pray: Sweet Jesus, today make me very aware of every opportunity to utter kind words. Give me the courage and the sweetness of disposition to say them and to mean them.
Act: Where are your opportunities to speak words of kindness? Begin in your own home, first thing in the morning, and then seize every opportunity in all the social spheres where you find yourself today. Look particularly to someone you don’t consider a friend, someone who might even be an adversary. Speak words of genuine kindness and compassion.
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I’m going to keep this in mind when dealing with the pharmacy about my daughter’s eczema medicine this evening, its been a rough day, and hopefully I can keep my disposition sweet. Its been a frustrating experience these past two days and my baby girl is itchy and irritable. My little code down below is piece…I’m hoping for Peace instead…
Hugs,
jamie
I came here via Ann at Holy Experience…thank you God for Ann. Just what I needed after a week of grieving the loss of some long-term friendships that have shifted due to our changing churches. This is such a simple reminder for me amongst the sea of many new faces in my life. God is so near to each of us!
I was also drawn here by Ann’s post at Holy Experience. However, thoughts of the blessings of friendship in my life and writing a post about it also drew me to this sweet reminder of how friendships are built. Thank you.
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