Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Strength and Kindness

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution."
~ Kahlil Gibran

At one of my children's schools, they have a lovely tradition of having the children who are graduating from the elementary school deliver a "sermon."  For the most part, it is their reflections on finishing 5th Grade and moving on to middle school.

Recently, I heard one little girl give an especially powerful reflection in which she talked about the strength of kindness.  When you are kind, she said, you build up the other person as well as yourself.  And when you are mean, you not only weaken the other person, but you also weaken yourself.

Out of the mouth of babes.

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