Hi Guys,
Today I just want to pose a rhetoric question, is kindness weakness?
I have been contemplating on this simple yet complex issue. In recent times, I have felt burdened in giving out kindness, yet as a Grace filled Christian and a lover of that, I have always been pushed to give the same.
My worry has been that; people have taken advantage of that, they have called me 'weak' and one who has no much strength, if that would even make sense.
At work, I have always been giving colleagues and people generally, a benefit of doubt and offered a helping hand.
Of late, I have felt even the position I hold in my work, could be bigger if I was a bit harsh and that what I have in life, has been given to me because I am 'nice', and probably better things would have presented themselves if I was 'harsh'.
Does Kindness mean weakness? Is it a fantasy for people to think if you are 'nice' things will be better?
People throw words at me, and yet I respond calmly, does remaining composed even in turmoil even a good thing?
Does what the Bible say we should do, which is based on kindness, even a healthy decision for us all? Shouldn't we just answer bad with bad instead of good? Are there rewards in all this?
I feel bothered, how I am expected to suck it up and offer kindness all time everyday.
Guys,
Do you think Kindness holds our lives together and give us peace? Or does it result in a nagging dissatisfaction that threatens to ruin our kind giving attitude.
Let's brainstorm on this and let's give kindness a worthy benefit, because all of us a threatened to give up all of it and go back to our unkindness.
1John 4:7-8, "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
He who does not love does not know God,for God is love"
Amazing write up.
ReplyDelete“Does Kindness mean weakness?? I have often found myself asking the same question in the past.
I understand your predicament and resonate to some extent with what you feel. However I have learnt over time and through various experiences that, what we often call kindness, is actually passivity; the inability to say no or worry how others will perceive us should we deny extending the so called compassion. You have the power to set healthy boundaries, utilize that and be kind to yourself first.
Hi Nassim.
DeleteSo much truth, thanks for that, will consider setting those boundaries, I feel you and that goes a long way in ensuring I don't lose myself