I am always patient, kind, caring, and gentle toward others.
I picked these words with great care because there was a time in my life that these qualities were missing.
I was impatient with others; always in a rush; always demanding that others be and do what I wanted them to be and do.
I was not very kind. I had been hurt by others and carried a chip on my shoulder. I was fed up with the way others had treated me and I wasn’t going to take it any longer.
I certainly wasn’t caring. I was wrapped up in my own feelings and ego. Others feelings just didn’t matter to me. I was selfish.
And, gentle? Not me. Oh, I wasn’t rude or crude toward others. But I was known to be grumpy and harsh.
It’s amazing that as I right down these words I realize even more how wrong I was.
BUT ALL OF THAT IS THE PAST. Thank God.
I have learned to be more patient. Life is less hectic and stressful. I am accepting of others. I no longer feel that I must prove that I am right and the other person is wrong.
I treat others with kindness. “Be kind to one another” is one of the shortest verses in the Bible, but it contains one of the biggest truths. The French essayist, Joseph Joubert wrote, “Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”
I am more caring. I now consider the feelings of others. I find ways to show that I really do care.
I am learning to be gentle with others. It has been said, “Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
I have a long ways to go, yet I have come so far already. By the time I leave this earth I trust that others will say, “I remember Dan as a patient, kind, caring, and gentle person.”
I picked these words with great care because there was a time in my life that these qualities were missing.
I was impatient with others; always in a rush; always demanding that others be and do what I wanted them to be and do.
I was not very kind. I had been hurt by others and carried a chip on my shoulder. I was fed up with the way others had treated me and I wasn’t going to take it any longer.
I certainly wasn’t caring. I was wrapped up in my own feelings and ego. Others feelings just didn’t matter to me. I was selfish.
And, gentle? Not me. Oh, I wasn’t rude or crude toward others. But I was known to be grumpy and harsh.
It’s amazing that as I right down these words I realize even more how wrong I was.
BUT ALL OF THAT IS THE PAST. Thank God.
I have learned to be more patient. Life is less hectic and stressful. I am accepting of others. I no longer feel that I must prove that I am right and the other person is wrong.
I treat others with kindness. “Be kind to one another” is one of the shortest verses in the Bible, but it contains one of the biggest truths. The French essayist, Joseph Joubert wrote, “Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.”
I am more caring. I now consider the feelings of others. I find ways to show that I really do care.
I am learning to be gentle with others. It has been said, “Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.”
I have a long ways to go, yet I have come so far already. By the time I leave this earth I trust that others will say, “I remember Dan as a patient, kind, caring, and gentle person.”
That has a nice ring to it.
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