Today I am featuring I guest post by my friend Kayla. (You can read more about her and our friendship here.)  Kayla does not have her own blog at this time but had some thoughts she wanted to share with the cyber-world so I am grateful for this opportunity to give her voice an opportunity to speak.
 
 

“Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”

Post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, polycystic ovarian syndrome , depression, infertility, Lupus, irritable bowel syndrome, Sjogren’s Syndrome…the list can go on and on. Everyone we meet is fighting a battle. Do we really care? Or are we so wrapped up in our own world?

Bullying is at an all time high.

I remember a while ago, about a year, this woman was talking very negatively about someone I know. This person I know was having an extremely rough time in her life; and when the woman was talking about her, it really rubbed me the wrong way. I kindly asked the woman that she not say those things. She responded by saying, “This is MY freedom of speech, and I can say whatever I want whenever I want.” REALLY?! Just because we have freedom of speech does not mean we can negatively critique, criticize, and attack others! This is the epitome of selfishness. The more selfish we are, the more miserable we are. There is no real joy. And because of bullying…

Suicide rates are at an all time high.

Pain is just pain. It will come in different sorts (mental, emotional, physical). It will swallow you whole. You cannot seem to move forward. The world around you just seems to be moving on without you. Nobody is stopping to help. You are told to just get over it…to just move on. You feel your world collapsing. The pain in your eyes is so obvious. You just wish someone would look at you…REALLY look at you. You are screaming out for help.  You are crying. You are just begging. You feel like you have nowhere to turn; so you turn to drugs, alcohol, food, sex, anything to help the pain go away even if it is just for a small while. You just want to be numb.  You believe there is no hope.

God is love, and all true love comes from Him.

Our society has lost sight of this. We have forgotten God. We have forgotten His love. We have forgotten how to truly love others. Nothing is more powerful than God’s love.

Mark 12: 30,31 KJV

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all they heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all they strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.


Ephesians 4: 32 KJV

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.


I John 4: 7-11 KJV

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loves us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.


“The Golden Rule”

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.


Remember to show

kindness,

compassion,

and

true love that only comes from God

because everyone is fighting a harder battle than you.



Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. This is just a compilation of my thoughts, and hopefully, they have made make some sense. PLEASE, SEEK OUT A LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL FOR ADVICE AND TREATMENT!