Pastor's Corner

for Sunday Sept. 27th
“Kind words are like honey—sweet to the soul and healthy for the body.” (Prov. 16:24) Kindness and kind words are sweet and healthy for our body. Both in receiving kindness and in showing kindness. Research has shown that a simple act of kindness directed towards another improves the functioning of the immune system and stimulates the production of serotonin in both the recipient of kindness and the person extending kindness. Even more amazing is that persons observing the act of kindness have similar beneficial results. Those of us whom God has saved have experienced God rich kindness and mercy, we then need to reach out in kindness and compassion to others, we need to be looking for ways that we can affirm people, to build them up, to remind them that they have value because they are created in the image of God! There is so much in life that presses down on us; that questions our worth and value, a single act of kindness or kind words can make a world of difference in someone’s life. Your kindness and kind words may not change their lives but it will certainly change their day, and it will make your day better too. (Then again, maybe it will change their life.)
Pastor Don.