Here’s To The People Whose Kindness Isn’t A Strategy But A Way Of Life

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Your sensitivity is not a flaw. It is not something you need to apologize for, hide, or outgrow. It is the soil from which your kindness grows and blesses the whole world.

You feel things deeply because you were made to. You carry a tenderness within your soul that allows you to hold space for what others cannot see. You reach beneath the surface of things—gripping the shift in someone’s voice, the emotion behind a glance, the grief that lives quietly in the corner of the room. Your spirit was built to perceive what cannot be measured, to notice what cannot be explained, and that is not fragility—that is wisdom. That is divine.

Rebecca Simon is the author Let Go, Trust God, available globally.

God gave you your sensitivity not as a burden, but as a bridge. As a way to soften the hurt in this world. As a way to remain soft in the dark. Your tenderness, your empathy, your hope—these are not reflections of something that is broken within you. These are signs that you are connected to something deeper, something real. You are alive in a way many people have forgotten how to be. You were created that way for a reason.

Yes, your sensitivity makes life feel louder sometimes. It can feel like your heart bruises more easily, like the weight of the world hangs heavy in your bones. But that same sensitivity is also why you feel joy more vividly. It is why you are impacted by those you care about, by their humanity, by their light. It is why beauty, real beauty, still moves you to tears. Your sensitivity is your gateway to awe. It is how you stay close to wonder.

It’s also how you stay closer to God. Because God made you this way. Not to survive the world by becoming colder, but to help change it by staying in the light. To deepen it. To transform it through compassion, through communion, into love.

You are not too much. You are not broken. You are built with intention. You are built with meaning. On the days it feels like the world has forgotten how to honor that, remember what God has always known. Sensitivity is not a weakness. It is a sacred strength. It is your gift, and the truest kindness you carry into the world to your peers, friends, and family.