If you’ve never opened up the book of Proverbs you will have missed out on this little drop of gold:
“A kindhearted woman gains respect, but ruthless men gain only wealth.” (Proverbs 11:16)
Something I really would aspire to be is Kindhearted. I wouldn’t say that I’m really there yet as there are plenty of times when I revert back to spitefulness or selfishness. Our heart is a place where thoughts and feelings can be locked away, what if all those thoughts and feelings were kind? Surely that would show on the surface.
Its easy to be kind on the surface, do nice things for people, help people, volunteer or even put yourself in the lower position but if these things aren’t generated by the kindheartedness mentioned here, will you truely gain respect? I think that those who do ‘nice things’ in order to be noticed or gain position are usually transparent.
When I say ‘revert back to spitefulness’ I mean that this is something that I struggled with in the past. In fact, in the very distant past it was even put on my school report (I think that was in grade 4 ‘can be spiteful’). Thats when I learnt what spitefulness meant, its amazing how you learn the meaning of words as a kid!
My hope is that I can be truely kindhearted, that it becomes the ‘norm’ for me and not something I have to think about. Ultimately my hope is that this will shine on through Keziah and that she will grow up to be a kindhearted person too.
I just wanted to share those thoughts with you as I seem to be mentioning my polymer clay work and photos a lot here lately.
