The Law of Kindness is on her lips

Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thessalonians 5:11

Do you know an encourager? A person who always tries to say something that makes you feel confident in what you are attempting?

I am not an encourager by nature but some people are. It comes very naturally for them to speak words that make us feel we are indeed able to do a difficult task.
Or make us feel that the most mundane acts are great accomplishments.

They just make you feel good.

I have a daughter who is a natural encourager. She amazes me and makes my heart swell.

Many years ago she was diagnosed with a seizure disorder. Epilepsy. For a while we had the wind knocked out of us but we got up and worked hard to make sure the doctors would be wrong about some of the things they told us. She won't read, she will have trouble with memory, she won't be able to ride a bike because of balance, she will have learning disorders that will cause delay. All of it proved untrue.

And we prayed. And prayed. And prayed. She would go for years without a seizure and we would be confident there would never be another one...... but there were.

Then the EEG was normal and the MRI was too. She was seizure free and we were so happy that she could get a driver's license.

She has a job and is a college student. Life seemed 'normal'. Then the headaches started and she was having them everyday. The doctor visits began again. Then another seizure and a visit to the neurologist. And he told us what I expected but not what we wanted to hear.

No driving. For six months. She would need to get a ride to work and to school and to anywhere else she wanted to go.

But she smiled through it all and when I asked her about it we talked about another woman who couldn't drive. My husband's grandmother.

She is 93 and has survived cancer, had two brain surgeries and is blind and almost deaf. She started loosing her sight almost 20 years ago and stopped driving about 15 years ago. We had just visited her a few days before and she had told us that she loved to drive and missed driving so much.

And my sweet girl said she thought of her and how she will never drive again but that at least she had only lost her driving privilege for six months. Always so positive.

Then yesterday her younger sister had to pick her up from work and take her to class. They were running late and the driver is afraid of the interstate. But she decided to take it anyway so her sister wouldn't be late to class. She was nervous and scared and feeling she wasn't doing very well when her sister told her what a great driver she was and how well she was doing.

She can't drive but instead of being angry at others who can, someone who may not be doing something as well as she can, she speaks words of encouragement.

I want to be like my daughter.

She opens her mouth with wisdom,
And on her tongue is the law of kindness. Proverbs 31:26