What is the reward of kind or forgiving behavior? In our society, a certain amount of ruthlessness is expected to “get ahead”. Expressions such as “nice guys finish last” abound. What then, is the reward of being forgiving and gentle. It is difficult to answer this question, not because rewards do not exist but because of the definition is and importance of those rewards. This includes a free soul, a clear conscious, better karma, etc. So the better question would be not what is the reward but is the reward worth it?
From my own personal experience, yes the reward is worth it. To others, the material rewards of ruthlessness and expediency carry a much greater reward. This leads to an entirely different set of questions about moral relevancy, the nature of good versus evil, and dozens others. That discussion is for another day though.
What I do know is that I have walked both paths in my life and gained more from the pathway of forgiveness. I sleep better at night. I can look people in the eye. These and other aspects, to me, make it so that I will choose that pathway before the hard cold path.
I tend not to drop a lot of comments, but i did a few searching and wound
up here What Reward Forgiveness? | Xiong Nai Xin Retreat.
And I actually do have a few questions for you if you don’t mind. Could it be just me or does it look like a few of these comments appear like left by brain dead people? 😛 And, if you are writing on additional sites, I’d like
to follow everything new you have to post. Could you make
a list of the complete urls of your communal sites like your Facebook page, twitter feed, or linkedin profile?
Some of the comments are somewhat disconnected from the subject matter. I do moderate the comments made on the site but tend to be fairly lenient. When something is an obvious advertisement I generally scrap it. I have the feeling that some of the ones you are looking at are those.
I really do not write for other sites. I have a FB page and up to a few months back posted regularly. I still do post in that venue but most of my work is here. I decided that I needed a forum to get my thoughts out that was not as stilted as FB.
I was wondering if you ever thought of changing
the page layout of your site? Its very well written;
I love what youve got to say. But maybe you could a little more in the
way of content so people could connect with it better.
Youve got an awful lot of text for only having one or 2 pictures.
Maybe you could space it out better?