Kindness is a vertue...yes?

Well, whatever was wrong with me yesterday is largely gone today.  I drank a lot of fluid and went to bed early.  It is not uncommon for me to go to bed after midnight or even later.  I guess it is because I worked the evening shift for so many years that my inner time clock is on "work" time, even though I no longer have to go to work.  So, I did cover up my head around 10 PM and feel much better for it today.  My voice is back with only an occ. hoarseness and less coughing and my throat looks better, too.  It seems to be the epidemic of the season and everyone has it.

GOD BLESS OUR HOME, AND HELP US

TO LOVE EACH OTHER TRUE,

TO MAKE OUR HOME THE KIND OF PLACE

WHERE EVERYTHING WE DO

IS FILLED WITH LOVE AND KINDNESS,

A DWELLING PLACE FOR THEE,

AND HELP US GOD EACH MOMENT

TO LIVE MOST HELPFULLY.

"If you do good, know for whom you are doing it,

and your kindness will have its effect.

Do good to the just man and reward

will be your.

if not from him, from the Lord"

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Sirach 12: 1-2

It isn't by accident that there are so many references and commandments to do acts of kindness or to love our neighbors as ourselves in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. Times change, nations fall or rise, people and societies ebb and flow; translations of the Bible are changed from the old vernacular to the new, but HIS WORD WILL NOT PASS AWAY.  The message stays the same and we are implored to live by these messages of Christ in His teachings.

It isn't always easy to be kind or to love someone who has done us wrong and it's a, "O Yuk, I can't stand so and so-that person."  I have done and said it myself a few times.  One of my many shortcomings, I guess, that I continue to work on.  Yes, I have a long way to go, but yet I try.  I really do, but having a big mouth and a critical mind...well, it's an ongoing act of contriteness.  So, pray that I become a less critical person who often puts "foot in mouth."

This afternoon I had my TV changed over to cable from Dish TV and the tech. guys solved the problem with my laptop.  Now I really can move from room to room or take my laptop with me.  Thanks Guys!!

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