Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

Sometimes we learn the most when times are bad, not when they’re good.  Each of us is impacted in different ways by different events.

• When I was a kid, I didn’t like the way some of the older children in church treated me, so when I grew up I made sure to treat them well.
• When I chose to go to summer camp instead of my family trip and I look back on that decision, I remember that family is more important than a girlfriend.

That latter touches on the subject at hand– the impact of love on our lives. You see love impacts how we think, what we choose and how we act. It impacts how merciful we are, and what we overlook. It can make us value certain things more than others.

A lot of “ink has been spilled” on dating and it’s negatives. One of the biggest negatives is the rebound. When you’re on the rebound you make really bad choices:

• You can choose to go after someone that you wouldn’t have considered before because of bad judgement.
• You can choose to compromise your previous standards.
• You can start to believe that simply because one person did not want you that no one will.

But you can also learn a valuable lesson, which is something that I did. My lesson was that it’s important to find someone that you can trust, someone that will be faithful.

Lord-willing, all of our relationships will be long ones, but it’s the trust in the other person that allows us to grow together, to know that when you fight it’s not the end, etc.

The important thing to know about rebounds is that they will end, but not as quickly as you think. And during that time you need a lot of God and a lot less of the opposite sex.

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