00:00If you and I were sitting together on a quiet morning, still carrying the
00:09unspoken weight of yesterday, but wanting something better for today, I'd begin
00:17gently. I'd let the words settle like warm light on the surface of still water.
00:24Because what you're reaching for is holy ground, honoring people whose kindness
00:32doesn't behave like a currency, doesn't posture for advantage, doesn't keep score
00:40or audition for applause. It simply lives, breathes, moves, because that's what the
00:51spirit inside them does. So let's step slowly into this. There's a kind of
01:00kindness that isn't a strategy. It isn't a tool, isn't a presentation piece polished
01:08for the world. It isn't part of a networking plan and it isn't rehearsed in the
01:15mirror the night before. It's not the handshake that hides an agenda or the smile
01:22that conceals a bid for influence. It's not the careful choreography of someone who
01:30wants something from you. No, this is a different species of kindness, a wild
01:38kindness, a kingdom kindness. It's the kind that has already surrendered its self-importance
01:48and found its life rooted somewhere far deeper than reputation or gain. It flows from people
01:57who learned, often through pain, that the only reward worth anything comes from God. And when
02:05you've tasted that, no earthly applause tastes good enough to compete. These are the people who
02:15carry kindness the way a flame carries heat. They don't think about it. They don't calculate who
02:25deserves it. They don't portion it out like rations. It just radiates from the core of who they are.
02:35Because kindness in them has stopped being an act and become an identity. And so today,
02:46you want to start by acknowledging them, honoring them, lifting them up, not for spectacle,
02:53but because you see the quiet miracle they are. And that longing is already a prayer.
03:01If we listen carefully, scripture whispers something that shapes all of this. That goodness is not
03:12something we manufacture. It's something God cultivates. Fruit of the spirit isn't the result of clever
03:22behavior. It's the harvest of surrender. If someone's kindness feels authentic, unforced, unpolished,
03:33it's because they've allowed the spirit of God to make a home inside them. Not a weekend visit,
03:42not an annual retreat, not an annual retreat. A home. Now, these are the people who forgive before bitterness sets,
03:52who speak softly when the world shouts, who lift others without announcing the weight,
04:00who pray for people who may never know they were prayed for, who stay gentle, even when life
04:11hasn't been gentle back. And if we're honest, part of why their lives touch us so deeply is because their
04:21kindness exposes something innocent in us that we thought we'd lost. You feel safer around these people.
04:32You breathe better. Your soul unclenches because their very presence whispers the truth.
04:41This is who we were meant to be. But here's the part we don't always say aloud. These people aren't
04:52naturally this way. They aren't born with halos. They aren't constitutionally serene. They're not immune to
05:02anger or exhaustion or disappointment. They are not without wounds. Most of them learned kindness through
05:13fire. They became gentle because the world wasn't. They learned compassion because someone showed them
05:22cruelty and they swore not to repeat it. They became generous because they knew the despair of
05:31being overlooked. They chose mercy because they felt what it was like when mercy was withheld.
05:43And somewhere along the way, sometimes gradually, sometimes in a moment that broke them open,
05:53God reached into their story and rewrote the script. He transformed their wounds into wells.
06:02So, when we honor their kindness today, we aren't just celebrating their personality.
06:10We're bearing witness to God's craftsmanship. And maybe, well, just maybe, the real invitation in calling
06:22attention to these people is this. Letting their lives become a quiet teaching. Not a lecture,
06:32not a guilt trip. A teaching in the ancient way. By presence. By example. By the thin places where God peeks
06:45through a human life. Maybe today is the day we let their faith-filled kindness remind us of what God can shape in us.
06:57Because every time we encounter someone whose kindness is genuine, something in us stirs.
07:07We're reminded of the life we want to live. The person we want to become. The spirit we want to embody.
07:17We feel the tug towards something higher, purer, freer. God never wastes that tug. That tug is a formation beginning.
07:30That tug is the spirit saying, pay attention. This is the path.
07:39And hear me. Kindness is not weakness.
07:44No matter what the media or society tell you. Or what you've seen. By example, when people walk all over kind people,
07:55they see it as a weakness. But it isn't softness. And it isn't fragility.
08:02Kindness is a strength wearing peace as its coat. It is courage choosing gentleness. It is wisdom
08:13refusing cruelty, discernment that sees a wound beneath a person's defenses and chooses not to strike it.
08:23Kindness is spiritual maturity with the volume turned down. But make no mistake. It is power.
08:37And maybe the most powerful thing about it is its endurance. Strategic kindness burns out.
08:47Spontaneous kindness fizzles. Performative kindness eventually reveals its seams.
08:57But spirit-born kindness? Well, that carries the same endurance as the God who breathed it.
09:05It shows up when it's tired. It shows up when it's unseen. It shows up when life is unfair.
09:14It shows up when it has every reason not to. Because it's not drawing from human reservoirs anymore.
09:27And so today, when you give this shout out, not as a performance, but as recognition,
09:36you are participating in something sacred. You're shining light on the people who quietly carry God's heart.
09:44into the world. The ones who carry grace like a lantern through the dark.
09:51You're reminding all of us that kindness is one of the places where faith becomes visible.
10:00You're reminding someone listening today that being unnoticed doesn't mean being unimportant.
10:10That unnoticed kindness still moves heaven, still shapes destinies, still plants seeds God will water in invisible soil.
10:23You're reminding someone who has been pouring out love gently, steadily, quietly,
10:33that God saw every unsung moment, and you're reminding the rest of us that we can join them.
10:43Not by trying harder, not by forcing virtue, but by letting the Spirit do His work in us, unguarded, unhurried, unhindered.
10:57So, let this be the invitation for your day.
11:02Let the kindness of others become the spark for your own transformation.
11:07Let their faith-filled lives become the evidence that God still grows beautiful things in imperfect people.
11:18Let their example soften what was hardened in you.
11:22Let it heal what has been bruised in you.
11:26Let it awaken what has fallen asleep in you.
11:31And above all, let it encourage you to believe that the same God who shaped their kindness can shape yours.
11:42Because kindness that comes from God is not a strategy.
11:47It's a way of life.
11:50And today, you're choosing to honor it.
11:55You're choosing to celebrate it.
11:57You're choosing to participate in it.
12:01May that choice open something wide and eternal inside of you today.
12:09Friends, there are beautiful gifts that God has placed within you.
12:18And kindness is one of them.
12:21Show it to the world.
12:23Remember, each person you meet, we have no idea the battles, the struggles that they are fighting in their minds and hearts each day.
12:35And the best way that we can support them, lift them up, and be good is to show that kindness that God has placed within you.
12:47Truth.
12:49God bless you.
12:51Bye bye.
12:53Bye bye.
12:54Bye bye.
12:55Bye bye.
12:56Bye bye.
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