Did
you know the importance that a compliment have in people lives? Think about it,
when was the last time you tell someone how good she/he looks? Or I like you
hair, or you are a very nice person, or you are a good men/women. We live our
lives in such a hurry that we sometimes forget to look and notice people around
us. Sometimes we forget to be humans, sometimes, we forget what means have feelings.
Doing
my internship, I have the opportunity to work with all kind personalities and
people, and even though I am there to guide them, teach them, and help them,
there are occasion where they are the ones that teach me the lesson. I have
been working most of the time with a group of people that have chronic mental
illness, people that are abandoned by their families, or are abuse because of
their condition by their care givers or even their families. This past weekend I
was going to start a group therapy and one of the old guys told me “you are a good
woman” and I say back to him; thank you, but you are a good man. I think I make
his day with those simple words. He replies back “really? I am a good man? Thank
you.”
That
old man remains me that we are humans with feelings, no matter if we are sick,
old, young, we have feelings. Do you remember what is the second most important
commandment that Jesus taught us and want us to follow? “Love others as much as you
love yourself.” Try to make the time today to give a compliment to someone, maybe
you will be making the day for that person with a simple couple of words.
Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, what is the most important commandment in the Law?”
37 Jesus answered:
Love the Lord
your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. 38 This is the
first and most important commandment. 39 The second most
important commandment is like this one. And it is, “Love others as much as you
love yourself.” 40 All the Law of Moses and the Books of the
Prophets[a] are based on
these two commandments.
Big Hug,
MRM
