Back to the Top 10 List for Parents of Adult kids … #3 on my list was Be Kind.

There is so much to be said about kindness, especially in our families.

And it is a mystery to me why it is often so hard to be kind to those who are closest to us.

Here is a little sentence I carry around in my head from Frederick Buechner, a Presbyterian pastor who writes like a dream.

He wrote:

"If you want to be holy, be kind."

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