{"id":79070,"date":"2025-12-15T06:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T11:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=79070"},"modified":"2025-12-16T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:20:14","slug":"tis-the-season-to-be-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/tis-the-season-to-be-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tis The Season To Be Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From The God of Miracles:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kindness is a spark that reflects God\u2019s Light while hate and discord engulf us in an actual darkness.<\/p>\n<p>When we\u2019re kind, joy begins to creep into our being, and then to pervade it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/auroraJesus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79087 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/auroraJesus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/auroraJesus.jpg 405w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/auroraJesus-255x371.jpg 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our bodies and emotions are both healthier. Our cells react to kindness and are often healed of sickness. Amiability is wishing another well, and so it is a blessing. We receive blessings in return. As one writer noted, kindness drives gloom and darkness from our souls and replaces it with hope. It glorifies, it ennobles, it purifies. It beautifies us. <em>We actually look better.<\/em> Ennoble is to increase dignity. It builds up. It summons grace, where discouragement resists those gifts that God has in store for us.<\/p>\n<p>Is contention, is criticality, really worth it, or does it only drain your peace?<\/p>\n<p>Kindness opens a portal to the hereafter and through that portal comes the surprise of serendipity. <em>[scroll for more:]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- spiritdaily.org --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6350947343102800\" data-ad-slot=\"9237292177\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Angels watch our every move<\/span> and celebrate when we perform an act of goodness. When we need them, they speed on the highway that our love has paved.<\/p>\n<p>Kindness is potent because it is active love.<\/p>\n<p>One kind word, one kind smile, one gesture, is often enough to serve as a catalyst.<\/p>\n<p>We don\u2019t see it, but the world around us changes.<\/p>\n<p>The legend goes of a stranger who sought shelter for the night and was tossed out when he uttered God\u2019s Name in vain. In the morning, an angel appeared to the innkeeper, exclaiming, \u201cI sent a stranger to you for shelter. Where is he?\u201d When the innkeeper explained what happened, the angel replied: \u201cFor forty years God has been patient with that man. For one single night could you not bear with him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2722d088-fc45-41da-9641-d23c1ef392da.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-79071 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2722d088-fc45-41da-9641-d23c1ef392da.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2722d088-fc45-41da-9641-d23c1ef392da.webp 1024w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2722d088-fc45-41da-9641-d23c1ef392da-768x1344.webp 768w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2722d088-fc45-41da-9641-d23c1ef392da-878x1536.webp 878w, https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2722d088-fc45-41da-9641-d23c1ef392da-255x446.webp 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 89px) 100vw, 89px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Patience and forbearance<\/span> are the stuff of angels and the stuff of miracles. Think of all the times your guardian has stood by you despite <em>your <\/em>conduct. The Book of Proverbs tells us that \u201ca patient man is better than a warrior, and he who rules his temper, than he who takes a city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This forbearance leads to the grace of knowing ourselves more intimately, and brings about a housecleaning.<\/p>\n<p>It is an exercise in discipline, and discipline strengthens the Spirit. With discipline you can control your emotions and reorient your thoughts. Discipline is like the side of a river. Without its banks, a river becomes a swamp. It obumbrates.<\/p>\n<p>Control\u2014in every aspect of your life\u2014keeps chaos in check and opens the way, especially during the Christmas season, to miracles.<\/p>\n<p>[resources:<em> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookstore.spiritdaily.com\/products\/br-the-god-of-miracles-by-michael-h-brown?_pos=1&amp;_sid=b606017ba&amp;_ss=r\">The God of Miracles<\/a><\/span>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/bookstore.spiritdaily.com\/cdn\/shop\/products\/MHB-102-2_large.jpg?v=1627695630\" width=\"120\" height=\"177\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"miracles\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1765780616\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"&#8216;Tis The Season To Be Kind\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The God of Miracles: Kindness is a spark that reflects God\u2019s Light while hate and discord engulf us in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-miracles","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}