The Redbud Post
I Don’t Want to Just Be Nice
A few years ago I had one goal for the upcoming year in Djibouti and it was, at first glance, a simple goal. I aimed to not be mean. Put positively, I aimed to be nice. Kind. Sweet. Like I said, not mean. At that point, I had lived for nine years in the Horn of...
Kindness Lesson from a Barn
Settling in the straw, I am grateful for a quiet moment after a 12-hour workday followed by all the necessary personal conversations that help mop up the spills and splatters of everyday life. My family verbally unloads their day like so much stored up dirty...
Boundaries Breed Kindness
As kindness is a fruit of the Spirit, how can Christians better demonstrate this in our daily lives? Do No Harm, But Take No Crap... Viewed through the lens of one made in the Image of God (Imago Dei), that is a Christian value. Christian practice historically...
Decrypting Kindness with Mittens and a Hat
My tween eyes followed its four-foot journey towards the cashier with more suspicion than curiosity. “Who’s THAT for?” I interrogated. She plucked the mitten-hat combo off the rack and sent it down the conveyor belt with the Beef-a-Roni and cantaloupe. This fuzzy...
Kindness of Truth-telling
“The Lord Almighty grant us a peaceful night and a perfect end. Amen.” I begin again through the Compline liturgy, trying to integrate this ancient practice into my bedtime routine. Praying through these lines each night is new to me, a nod toward the start of a...
Anyone Can Be Kind
I looked around the room at the 12 brave young people who had shown up for a field trip to the local community college. Occasionally in my work as a high-school substitute teacher, I am assigned the special education "Transitional Academy" for students who are no...
Tame Your Tongue
When I was born, my Auntie Lin gave me a wall hanging inscribed with my name, its meaning, and a verse plucked from Proverbs 31: “She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness” (31:26 KJV). It was the first verse I learned by heart,...
The Miraculous, Exhilarating Touch of God
I have been taught in my Christian circles to put my feelings in their proper place through the truth of God’s Word, the Bible, and I absolutely believe that to be valid and wise. My emotions are often a runaway train heading toward certain destruction, so pulling...
God Delights in Impossibilities
The meeting was said to be scandalous, forbidden by the community. It was also a meeting divinely orchestrated by God so that his good news would be preached and that the brokenhearted would find healing. True to himself, the Almighty would prove that he indeed is...
For Such a Time As This
I paused and looked out over the small crowd of children sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Sunday school room, waiting for their response. I played the role of narrator in a short play about the book of Esther, and as I’d just said the name “Haman,” I was...
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