 | Kindness On DisplayKindness to FamilyPosted Thursday, November 23rd, 2006 and visited 467 times, 1 so far today by MInTheGap |
It may sound simple, but sometimes families need to be the recipients of kindness almost as much as those around us. For one thing, they are the ones that do more for us than almost anyone else in this life. They do a lot of things because they want to and some because they have to. There’s a lot of things that they do that we take for granted.
In some cases, what we do for family will be noticed by others and will have great effects– as in the Biblical story of Ruth presented to us on Ruth’s myspace blog:
But Ruth’s reputation preceded her. Boaz, a wealthy farmer and kinsman, knew about her kindness to her mother-in-law and about her willingness to come to a foreign land. Boaz noticed Ruth gleaning in his field one day and inquired about her. The workmen explained who she was and added that she had worked with little rest since early morning. Her work ethic gave her favor in Boaz’ sight, and he asked her to glean only in his field, staying close to the other women. He made sure she went home with ample grain.
Boaz looked well upon Ruth because she was a hard worker and showed kindness to her mother-in-law. We never know who will see us and our kindness (not that that is the reason that we should do it!), but we make an impact on more people than just the object of our kindness– we show a good example.
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