The Fifth Fruit: Kindness (MNM 9)
Happy 2015, and welcome back to our study! I don’t know about you, but Christmastime brings a good bit of chaos into my life and heart, and I’m usually breathing a deep sigh of relief when the slower pace of January finally arrives. I hope that you, too, are enjoying this post-holiday season. Soaking in the Scripture (Section 1) You may remember spending time in Psalm 139 as part of our r eflection on the fruit of love . As a way of re-entering into our study and also to prepare for this week's focus on kindness, let’s return to that passage. I invite you, again, to spend time looking it over, this time in your own Bible. Read it more than once, perhaps in different translations, or even aloud. Is there a word or phrase that strikes you as newly relevant to your life during this season? Is it perhaps different than the one you noticed in the fall, when we first reflected on this passage? Give yourself some time to think, journal,