Be Kind to One Another

......Recovery from Prosopagnosia

In the book of Proverbs, a woman clothed with strength and dignity is described.  It says, "she openeth her mouth with wisdom and on her tongue is the law of kindness."  As we leave for Africa, I have been thinking about this "one another" and have been wondering just exactly what does it mean to live by the law of kindness?  By definition, kindness is affectionate, loving; a sympathetic or helpful nature.   We are going to a part of the world where the disabled are treated very unkindly and yet we know in our innermost part, that kindness is a language the dumb can speak, the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  And aren't all of us as sinners  saved because of  His kindness?  Our incurable disease called sin, was taken up by the Lord Jesus Christ and in Roman 3 it says, "that His kindness leadeth to repentance."  Christ looked past our sin and saw our need for His mercy.  When you are "kind to one another" you are willing to look in the face of the hurting.  We are living in a culture of faceblindness, prosopagnosia.  The term prosopagnosia is derived from Greek: prosop meaning “face”, and agnosi meaning “without knowledge”. Accordingly, those affected with the disorder lack the ability to recognize distinguishable facial features in humans.  So often I find myself suffering from this disorder;  I don't want to look in the face of the homeless, the hungry, the needy.  I don't want to look at suffering.   As we leave for Uganda, I pray for Dove's Eyes, that as Job 6:28 says,  "I will be so kind as to look"  at the suffering, the hurting, the needy and be healed of my faceblindness.