A prayer for the unkind person in your life by Nilsi Asak, be kind to one another tender-hearted

for giving each other just as God in Christ also has forgiven you, Ephesians 432.

Hurt happens, it happens to all of us, often when we do not anticipate it.

It happens in families, it happens in friendships, it happens with coworkers, and we even

hurt ourselves.

The most confusing kind of hurt, though, is the hurt that happens for seemingly no reason.

Maybe for you it's the customer service person who's supposed to be helping you out, but

keeps making everything more difficult with their attitude.

This scenario rubs you the wrong way every time.

You assume that kindness is part of their job description without considering why they

may be behaving rudely in the moment.

Or maybe you're dealing with an acquaintance who's constantly inconsiderate to your kind

gestures.

They disregard your feelings when you express them and say that you're sensitive without

trying to hear you out.

You don't understand their lack of effort to change, especially since you've vulnerably

expressed your concerns.

As we interact with people in relationships, we expect them to be as invested as we are

in the relationship, without considering that they might not value the relationship in

the same sense that we do.

We label people unkind by our own justifications.

As humans, when we judge others harshly, we simultaneously cover ourselves with a lot

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