{"id":38175,"date":"2025-11-19T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38175"},"modified":"2025-11-11T19:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:17:52","slug":"251120-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251120-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise with Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: right;\">by Max Lucado<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-38177 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251120_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251120_1.png 600w, https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/251120_1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They sat on opposite sides of the room, a man and a woman, bidding on an adorable puppy at a school auction. Others dropped off, but not this duo. Back and forth until they\u2019d one-upped the bid to several thousand dollars. This was the Wimbledon finals, and neither player was backing off the net. Finally, the fellow gave in and didn\u2019t return the bid. Going once, going twice, sold! You know what she did? Amidst the applause, she walked across the room and presented the puppy to the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you did that to the competition, with your enemy, with the boss who fired you. Suppose you surprised them with kindness. Not easy? No, it\u2019s not.\u00a0But mercy is the deepest gesture of kindness.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"CToWUd\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NYaAHCKALpHywaTtzrm8NxFrxMSf4vLZycr9MOW3N7OwMNLXb9ITHXPIvJaDKJKe_9zlqnFArPXwyEqmwjHAWBQM3iFmGqGMmOc3Krq_KYAgEVPXmZD1tmWW853tyVE=s0-d-e1-ft#https:\/\/maxlucado.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LucadoInspirationalReader_L1.jpg\" alt=\"The Lucado Inspirational Reader\" width=\"100\" height=\"132.87037037\" border=\"0\" data-bit=\"iit\" \/>Read more\u00a0<a title=\"The Lucado Inspirational Reader\" href=\"https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=bed511e434184985961d50fcb&amp;id=2b48502b75&amp;e=0716428f80\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/maxlucado.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Dbed511e434184985961d50fcb%26id%3D2b48502b75%26e%3D0716428f80&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1762998269695000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1217jxyrNhljQ5visk7aC7\"><em>The Lucado Inspirational Reader<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They sat on opposite sides of the room, a man and a woman, bidding on an adorable puppy at a school auction. Others dropped off, but not this duo. Back and forth until they\u2019d one-upped the bid to several thousand dollars. This was the Wimbledon finals, and neither player was backing off the net. Finally, the fellow gave in and didn\u2019t return the bid. Going once, going twice, sold! You know what she did? Amidst the applause, she walked across the room and presented the puppy to the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you did that to the competition, with your enemy, with the boss who fired you. Suppose you surprised them with kindness. Not easy? No, it\u2019s not. But mercy is the deepest gesture of kindness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38178,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38175\/revisions\/38178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}