Generous Harmony
The fifteenth saying of the Living Christ:
Be mindful of how loving kindness works harmony within the community. When compassion forgets harmony, the heart bends towards pleasing rather than healing, neglecting the aid, comfort, and support people need. Don’t ignore happiness, but the goal is joy in the hearts of all. Joy is a steady sense of well-being and meaning that arises from connection, purpose, and love, and cannot be taken by the moment.
People-pleasing fractures the bonds it pretends to preserve. It allows favoritism to arise and bows to the whims of a few and neglects the needs of the many. These fawning sycophants steal purpose from the work of the kin-dom to focus it on the desires of their beneficiaries.
Stay grounded and aware when accusations of people-pleasing arise. Hypocrites point to the kin-dom’s work with the vulnerable and marginalized to take the resources for themselves. The kin-dom always has an eye out for the needs of the vulnerable and marginalized.
Should harmony detach from loving kindness, then love is for nothing. Compassion is not a feeling, nor a performance to be seen. It is not something beautiful to be admired from afar. Loving kindness is the embodied power of God in the world for its restoration and healing.
Live in generous harmony with everyone. This is the way of the kin-dom. Love flows from our Father through us, not to divide, but to knit together in harmony. It does not react, nor does it seek repayment. It arises from the common needs of the people for life.
When the heart finds balance, loving kindness flows out generously without striving. This is beauty that blesses.
Generosity is restored when people are brought together. It heals the soul by mending the divide between our desire to help and our ability to extend a helping hand to others. It heals the world by transforming our communities through the power of transformed people acting in a balanced, generous way instead of papering over the problems without fixing them. All this restoration is discovering that true harmony overflows.
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