The Power of Kindness

• kindness
• anxiety
• surviving
• solution
• mask
• capable
• self-sabotage
• gift
• strongholds
• the cross
• respectability
• the bible
• Colossians 3
• compassion
• gentleness
• burden
• lay down
• Heavenly Father
• guilt
• guilty
• tranform
• transformation
• change
• struggle
• overwhelm

The Problem…
I’ve always been the sort of person who likes everything sorted to the nth degree but over the last few years, after several traumatic events, that desire for order has transmuted into a knot of anxiety that often threatens to overwhelm me. It’s on disquieting days like these, when the weight of agitation and tension rise, that I feel most vulnerable, unable to think straight or work properly. I’m sure many can identify with these feelings and we each have our own way of coping until the feelings subside.

The Solution…
Have you noticed, though, that when near to the edge, surviving each day only by fixing the mask of capability firmly to your face whenever in public scrutiny, that it is often something very small that melts the hitherto immovable false facade we bear?

I know from past experience that at the hardest times of my life, when I am my own worst enemy, self-sabotaging my day with endless tasks and barricading the pain and difficulty inside - that it is kindness that floors me, bringing me to tears and to my knees.

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