Last year I wrote in little bits of pieces of paper little memories or things that happened to me that made me smile and put them in a jar throughout the year. I did this the year before, too, and both times I forgot months in the middle, but it's so nice to read the ones I remembered to include at the end of the year/beginning of the next year. This year I found this one that wasn't necessarily a memory but something I was inspired to remind myself of: "Practice kindness. The soft-hearted are let into the Kingdom of Heaven." I think this is one of the most basic reminders but also easiest to forget. Just one simple word, smile, hug, or using your artistic, musical, cooking, or anything talents to bring someone else joy, or simply letting our anger die and forgiving someone (no matter what they did or who they are; even if we don't know them), choosing not to yell at someone or insult them (even in our minds), even if they don't know we are, just not complaining about anything we have to do, be it eating something that's not our favorite or doing a chore we'd rather not do, or even doing the same things we do every day with a little more love, a little more gentleness. This is so easy yet so hard to do sometimes, but we're always paid back for it in a hundredfold and never regret it. And it is in these small but easy and simple steps that we grow closer to God. I'll be the first to admit I'm the last one to say these things, but I suppose that's also why I'm saying them: to remind myself as well. As the famous words of Mother Teresa go: “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” And this is what so many of us, seemingly most of us these days, are called to do.
Anyway, thanks for listening to my cliche, rambly, unqualified-to-say words! Have a great day!
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