Things Jesus Told me Part II

Kindness

This is another thing Jesus told me. Maybe the second most important though with things Jesus said it’s hard to pick because in a certain sense everything he said is always in competition for number one, isn’t it?

Anyway. This one’s very important.

Kindness and eternity are related. Being kind only ever happens now and without reference to pasts and futures.

Thinking is just a postmortem on kindness; whether it was there or it wasn’t.

It comes and goes freely because it can’t be restrained. This is a thing about kindness, it’s free range. The minute you round it up and put it in a coop it can’t thrive; it becomes thin and weak. It needs to be allowed to roam a lot, even everywhere.

But most folks are afraid to treat kindness this way because to them it often looks way fragile. The fact is that among human beings there’s a mistaken perception that there’s very little of it, and everyone is afraid they won’t get their fair share.

Hence they store it up and hide it. They almost invariably become hoarders. The worst thing is that even though they hoard it and technically have more than enough, they don’t use it, even on themselves, which is perhaps one of the most most important places to use it. While they’re hoarding it, it desiccates and becomes thin and hard; and then it finds it very difficult to have its right and good action on life and people and animals—and even planets and so on. (Really, these days people on earth are very unkind to their planet.)