Random Kindness…

SUN., JUNE 14, 1992, 7:45 AM
CENTRAL UNION, HONOLULU

A sermon has been preached, truly, in this early morning hour, and you have heard it… and you carry the reminder of it on a pink card. It is a message like unto many I have given you. It is not unlike a part of the healing of your left leg and foot, where the message was to smile, to speak, and to be the friendly stranger to many on your campus and your community. The message is, fundamentally, to show forth My love for you, for others, and for this wonderful earth. I do love very fully, and I want you, and all Christians, to soak up that love and then exude it to others.

In some cases you should identify the Source… the motivation. In others, it could be better just to let the loving acts speak for “themselves.” Much of what I do in human lives is not recognized and acknowledged. Yet I can “come through” in powerful ways when “the time is right.”

You still are rather selfish with your time and resources, but under My guidance you are improving. Yet I also stress balancing, which often means that as you are giving yourself in one way, you must be withholding from other potential “gifts.” Time and space are limiting factors, so I always encourage you to focus on the positive. Your old maxim, which originally I put upon your spirit… if you are doing something worthwhile, worry not about what you are not doing. You were not sure about how to “spend” this morning, except you were sure you would have a Teaching here on this church “campus.” To be here you had to give up other possible encounters, and this day will offer further choices of this sort.

So the word “random” has some significance. You can’t practice kindness every moment. Certain acts will be purposeful, planned, and carried out. Others will be spontaneous actions. Some will qualify as kindness, even as you don’t recognize them, as such. You were slightly aware of yesterday’s example: your father wanted to give you money to help pay the cost of your car use here. You resisted, but then accepted his kindness with your own kindness. Interestingly it sometimes is a great act of kindness to accept a gift from another… and an unkindness to resist the gift because it seems, perhaps, to compromise your independence.

Ideal behavior, from My perspective, is that everything is done with love and kindness, with a minimum amount of thought about consequences. Live life lightly and gently. There are o so many ways to be kind, helpful, and unselfish. There is no specific pattern that all should follow, nor even one way you should be, consistently. I am pleased by a wide range of actual behaviors. Choose wisely, but “lightly.”

You are appreciated here, for how you were in years gone by… but also as you are now. You appreciate being a guest of this class, but remember also that your presence is a gift of positive remembrance to them.

This week you shall give time to the writing of Our Ruminations, which is and shall be a kindness to others, in written form. Remember that I do want you to write it with a kind of “return to Hawaii” flavor… and you can do that best while you are here. The time is quite sufficient. Just use it as I direct. And I say, first, that you needn’t sacrifice having Teachings during this time of “ruminating.” That’s My kindness of the week.