Kindness in Our Human Lives

Kindness is very individual and personal. It is one the unique human qualities that facilitates the ability to be sensitive to the others needs. It also motivates us to express deeds that will help to achieve the desired results for others in need. Some will say kindness is just a personal choice social behavior about being cute and nice to others. However, it is an essential quality that demonstrates strength of character, respect and admiration.

The Christmas Holidays and Kindness

For most people around the world, this time of year (December) is a special time when we will do and observe great kindness to each other. But Christmas is not the only time we are to express and receive kindness. This is required all year long and at all possible times in our lives. However, this holiday period usually facilitates the special need for kindness in keeping with the spirit of the Christmas Holiday.

Popular Example of Kindness

The Christian Bible (in the New Testament) gives us an historical but relevant example of kindness in Luke Chapter 10, from verses 25 to 37 when it expressed the story example pertaining to The Parable of the Good Samaritan. In that biblical example, Jesus told his audience about how a man in need received great kindness that helped him stay alive; otherwise he would most likely have died. This same kindness principle applies today.

During Christmas, we can often see and hear about deeds that probably would not have occurred had it not been for the kind-hearted people involved. Many Christian, Business and Socio-Cultural Organizations are involved in kindness during this time of year. And the services they will provide will undoubtedly help homeless and unemployed people, for example, stay alive and receive needed assistance.

Kindness in our Modern Societies

In our modern and humane societies around the world, what we see each day are very good examples of kindness. If you work in a particular place, for example, and during your arrival at work you simply open the door for a co-worker or visitor - that is kindness. Helping the disabled during your daily life routine or helping kids cross busy roads or streets is another basic example that many of us do each day. For those of us who believe in the Christian Bible teachings, our daily life expressions of kindness will have everlasting benefits. For example, the Christian Bible in Matthew Chapter 25 verses 34 to 36 (New International Version) says: "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'" So kindness for many people is not just about being nice and polite. This great principle of human social behavior has enormous benefits to many who have belief and faith in God as the Creator of Heaven and Earth.

In the United States, for example, kindness can often be seen everywhere. This is the case in many other countries. For example, many fellow neighbors in Haiti helped each other during the aftermaths of the January 2010 Earthquake. Many Nations around the world expressed their sympathy and kindness in gifts and donations. But many volunteers, for example, actually went to Haiti and helped the needed people in their distress and sorrow. That certainly made a difference to keep many alive so they could receive further assistance and care. Without the kindness the people of Haiti received, they would not have been able to start their recovery in a physical infrastructural way, mentally, physically, emotionally and so on.

Kindness and Christian Bible Examples

Kindness strives on Love as defined and explained in the Christian Bible (New International Version) 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 from verses 1 to 13. In verses 4 to 7 of that same Chapter, the Bible says: "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres." So the essence of acquiring kindness, expression and receiving it is Love. And kindness must be express without bias, nepotism or respect of persons.

So there cannot be unfair kindness, for example, for the poor and for the rich, or for the educated and the uneducated, for the popular among us and for ordinary people, and so on. In the same Bible (as mentioned above) Luke Chapter 6 verses 35 to 36 says: "But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful." So kindness from love cannot have the unpleasant elements of evil, mutual expecting benefits, ungratefulness, wickedness, merciless attitude or behavior, attached to the kind deed. Kindness must be a pure as true love.

Therefore, kindness is very unique, critical and special in our human daily lives. It is acquired from Love and the correct principles of life social relations. There are many examples of kindness in our daily lives. The Christian Bible also has many practical instances of kindness to each other. It also states the importance of kindness for Bible Believers to know and understand if they are to receive their Christian Eternal Life rewards. Kindness is not hard to know, acquire and practice and will certainly make us more acceptable to fellow humans in our daily lives.

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