Mercy in Gifts

'Love is all about cookies and pillows!' That's my business and life motto...
The picture, above, is an example of how many pillows you'll find, in use, in my living/loving room at one time.
Looks a little chintzy you say?
You're right! I'll get more!
I believe in offering a soft landing for the hard landings of life... tis only mercy.
Rarely will anyone emphasize the gift of mercy... rarely do people talk about the gift of mercy...
mostly because the gift of mercy is mostly about doing... mostly
listening is doing...
mostly
cooking is doing...
mostly
giving is doing...
mostly
hammering is doing...
mostly
praying is doing...
mostly
laughing is doing...
mostly
healing is doing...
mostly
Don't you just love doing?!
It was hard to find good information on the 'gift of mercy' but I did find a few articles that had really good information and no author was named so I thought it must be a compilation of info!
"Mercy is the HEART of a Body!"  
"Other words for merciful are: Comforter; Counsellor; Helper; Feeler; Builder of broken relationships; Empathy; Pity."
"In many ways, this gift is the exact opposite of the gift of prophecy... both having the capacity to look inside other people... the Prophet rebukes and corrects while the Mercy person weeps inside for the trouble, pain, burden and problems that lie behind failure."
"Their motivation is to notice and comfort those who are in distress."
"A merciful person shuns insincere people making them seem unapproachable."
Quote from another article, "Though all of us should approach our service to God and man with pure motives, the giving of your wealth, in whatever form, must be done with pure motive of not bringing attention to yourself."
More cushions in the bookshelf... bookshelf of mercy?

Simmy recalled a Myers Briggs test that she had done, twice, actually,... once in a Bible study group and once at Tec Voc High School, as part of a computer course.
'Apparently, my personality doesn't care who gets the credit along as the wrong person isn't claiming it.'
"Ooh, that's the part that likely goes to motive... Oy!"
Simmy turned up the little speakers and listened to Marvin Gaye's 'Mercy, Mercy, Me.'
"Oh, mercy mercy me... Where did all the blue sky go?
My sweet Lord... My sweet Lord... My sweet Lord..."
"From the 1971 album, 'What's Going On,' this song was written by a prophet and recorded in a tone of mercy."
Love that saxophone...