Blog | Care + Kindness

A Soft Answer Does Turn Away Wrath

It's reassuring to doubters, such as I, to find science reinforcing Biblical ideas. Here's a new development I read about in a magazine:...

Thank Someone This Week

I think it would be a good idea if someone promoted "Thanksgiving" cards. No doubt Hallmark is trying but people don't buy the idea...

Easter Means Life; Easter Shows Love

One short sentence, spoken by Jesus, is occupying my heart and mind. Jesus said this on the cross in the middle of his unspeakable pain....

That's Phony!

"I couldn't put my arm around her and hug her if I wasn't feeling like it. That would be phony." 'If it's phony you shouldn't do it', is...

Keep an Open Mind That You Can Close

In the small town of Cordova in northern California, a Roman Catholic Church one day became the center of some excitement. A glowing...

Being a Blessing to Little People

I tried to speak to some of my childhood heroes and heroines, now, after forty-five to fifty years. I tried to tell them how much they...

Big People Mean a Lot to Little People

A few days ago, I met several people who had important influences on my life. None had any idea that they had played a valued role in my...

Acts of (un)Kindness Stick

We speak of how an act of kindness sticks in our memory. But . . . acts of unkindness also stick. A writer tells of going down a lane...

Terrible Circumstances

Annie Dillard, a Christian writer, says this: God is no more blinding people with glaucoma or testing them with diabetes or purifying...

You Can Affect the Health of Others

Last week, I waxed eloquently (click here) (I hope you thought so!) on the benefit to your own health from smiling. But the other half of...

A Simple Action to Improve Your Health

Smiling is important, I say. Does the Bible back me up on that? Actually, there are no words that give us a clue whether the Apostles or...

Thoughts Generate Chemicals

An Olympic Athlete Trainer says this: There are four negative feelings or thoughts that produce toxic chemicals in the brain. They are...

The Truth about Kindness

Kindness is a very homely virtue. This is using the word 'homely' in the British sense of belonging to the home—a very commonplace,...

Hopeful vs Hopeless

DISABILITY BUILDS FAITH Popular opinion holds that a disabling life event is likely to destroy a person's faith. A research project...

Your Role in God’s Healing Touch

There is more to prayer than talking and crying out to Jesus. Often there is a hurting friend we are thinking of and concerned about when...