{"id":182,"date":"2006-04-16T06:59:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-16T14:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=182"},"modified":"2009-03-27T08:38:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T16:38:46","slug":"is-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2006\/is-kind\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Charity&#8230;is kind&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (1 Corinthians 13:4).<\/p>\n<p>What <i>is<\/i> kindness, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>I can think of what it isn&#8217;t &#8212; impatience, meanness, selfishness, thoughtlessness.<\/p>\n<p>I know. I&#8217;ll check WordPerfect to see what synonyms someone programed into it.<\/p>\n<p>Compassion. Generosity. Consideration. Gentleness. Tenderness. Thoughtfulness.<\/p>\n<p>God&#8217;s <i>love<\/i> is that way because <i>God<\/i> is that way.<\/p>\n<p>And He wants <i>my love<\/i> to be that way because He wants <i>me<\/i> to be that way.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not that way, until He lives His life through me.<\/p>\n<p>Only then am I genuinely loving and sincerely kind.<\/p>\n<p>(Even at those times when other responses seem more natural and fitting.)<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Charity&#8230;is kind&#8221; (1 Corinthians 13:4). What is kindness, anyway? I can think of what it isn&#8217;t &#8212; impatience, meanness, selfishness, thoughtlessness. I know. I&#8217;ll check WordPerfect to see what synonyms someone programed into it. Compassion. Generosity. Consideration. Gentleness. Tenderness. Thoughtfulness. God&#8217;s love is that way because God is that way. And He wants my love [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1-corinthians","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-2W","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}