And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
__Ephesians 4:32 (NKJV)
One of my favorite authors is Frederick Buechner and one of my favorite quotes from Buechner is:
“When Henry James, of all people, was saying good-bye once to his young nephew Billy, his brother William’s son, he said something that the boy never forgot. And of all the labyrinthine and impenetrably subtle things that that most labyrinthine and impenetrable old romancer could have said, what he did say was this: “There are three things that are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”
Be kind because although kindness is not by a long shot the same thing as holiness, kindness is one of the doors that holiness enters the world through, enters us through—not just gently kind but sometimes fiercely kind.”
— Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons by Frederick Buechner
The ONE THING for today: This quote was worth adding to my list just for the wordsmithing—when was the last time you read the words labyrinthine and impenetrably subtle in a sentence together!
But Buechner’s comments about kindness is worth remember too.
The ONE THING 