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b'In high school, I became a vegetarian and avoided eating meat for a number of years. I often skipped school lunches since they usually featured a main dish that included meat. And I only took the time to pack a lunch once in a while. By the end of most school days, I\\u2019d feel famished, sometimes having eaten nothing since breakfast. On the afternoons when marching band practice followed a full school day, I could barely wait for rehearsal to finish so I could go home and scrounge up a snack.\\nMy friend Tracy also marched in the school band, and she had a free period at the end of the day. So, Tracy had time to go to her own house between classes and band practice. Sometimes, she microwaved a cheese pizza while she was home and then brought me a slice when she came back to school for rehearsal. Every time I saw Tracy approach me carrying her baton in one hand and a triangle wrapped in aluminum foil in the other, I was overjoyed! Even though I wasn\\u2019t actually perishing, in that moment I felt rescued from starvation by Tracy\\u2019s kindness.\\nIn Colossians 3:12-14, the apostle Paul urges the Christians in Colossae to clothe themselves with compassion and kindness, among other virtues. And these virtues don\\u2019t come from us. Rather, because we belong to Jesus, we are able to love others because God\\u2019s love overflows from us. God showed us the ultimate kindness. He rescued us, people who were perishing, by giving His own life for ours. Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead to forgive us and restore us to relationship with God.\\nIf we\\u2019ve put our trust in Jesus, the Holy Spirit is in us\\u2014transforming us and making us new. As new creations, we possess God\\u2019s power to clothe ourselves in attitudes and actions that flow from a heart transformed by Jesus Christ. This is what my friend Tracy did. She was not just a classmate but also a sister in Christ, and she put on kindness toward me by sharing that delicious, meat-free pizza on a handful of afternoons. \\u2022 Allison Wilson Lee\\n\\u2022 Can you think of a time someone was kind to you? What did they do?\\n\\u2022 How might remembering Jesus\\u2019s kindness to us help us be kind to others? \\n\\xe2\\u20ac\\u0153So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.\\xe2\\u20ac\\x9d Matthew 7:12 (NIV)\\n\\xa0\\nRead Verses:\\nEph.2.1-Eph.2.10|1Pet.5.6-1Pet.5.11'