Stop being nice and find your kindness. (and what’s the difference?)

i recently was on a pretty long road trip and generally i'm a pretty good eater but when i go on road trips i give myself full permission to eat however much junk i possibly can so anyway i stopped at mcdonald's to get one of those egg mcmuffins that they like cram between two pancakes i know you know what i'm talking about but anyway the lady there was just the most genuinely kind friendly blast of warm sunshine i think i ever got in my life she kept calling me love and she was like you want the

breakfast bundle love i'm like yeah sure she's like you want the two for one love i'm like yeah sure she's like you want the five for five munch bag i'm like yeah why not now i'm one of those guys who judges food by weight the heavier the bag the better by the time she was done with me i had about an 80 pound bag of food that i spent about 6 49 on now the point of this is not my wonderful road trip eating habits the point is this lady she gave me something i'm not

talking about the food i'm talking about her kindness it's like she passed something on to me something spiritual and it changed me it made my day my week and here i am now trying to pass it on to you now i know this isn't rocket science or really anything new but the thing to think about is this we each have this incredible power to pass on these spiritual gifts to one another but unfortunately they can go both ways so i can pass on goodness and lightness and joy or i can pass on my heaviness and

darkness and negativity or what i think is really sad is sometimes we can just go through life and pass on nothing at all [Music] i remember when i was leaving that lady i was thinking yeah but i wish i had that i i just don't have that cheerful disposition well kindness is not about just putting on some cheeriness that's niceness and niceness can be faked and it's usually about manners and etiquette and i can be really nice to you and really care less about you but kindness is authentic it's real it can't be faked because

it comes from the heart so my kindness doesn't have to look like anyone else's we each have our own very unique brand of kindness we just have to find it kindness is simply just about passing on a little bit of myself and my heart to the next person i see and we can all do that jesus said whatever's in our hearts gonna come overflowing through our mouths so if you struggle with kindness like i do then the first place to look is what's going on in my heart is it a warm peaceful place or is

it cold and hard and cynical and agitated and irritable or worse is it just all about me [Music] if we lean a little more towards b or c then chances are we could be a nice person but not a very kind one so how do we become more kind well first we have to change our hearts how for those of us who are christians we have to stay close to the source the heart of all kindness and then just ask him replace my heart with your heart if we're sincere about it he'll do it over

time and just on the side here if our walk in faith has not made us more kind then we're missing something and for those of us who still may be on the fence well just ask yourself if there is a god and god has a heart what do i think that heart looks like and then would i want my heart to look more like that heart just in case we ever want to know what the heart of god looks like it looks like this and finally a simple thing we can all do is this just

picture yourself in the shoes of the person you're struggling to be kind to and then just put them in your shoes and treat yourself however you want to be treated it's a little cliche i know but it works i read some more once that most of the happiness in most of the sadness in the entire world is caused by how we treat one another i also read that heaven is filled with those who've done kindness to others well that's obvious but more importantly that heaven is filled with those who've had even some tiny little bit

of kindness done to them think of the power of kindness so after all that my very simple thought and image to you is this the next person i see today no matter who it is just ask yourself what is it i'm passing on to them you