Week 2 Link Up: 30 Days of Intentional Acts of Kindness with Your Kids
I'm choosing not to share our acts of kindness this week. Yep, I totally realize that was kinda the point of this series. Just I was bedevilled after reading a chapter from the book Your God is too Safety by Marking Buchanan. In this chapter, the author points out iii holy habits (aka spiritual disciplines) that are beneficial to all Christians: solitude, silence, and secrecy. In the excerpt beneath, the author is specifically talking most the holy habit of secrecy. Earlier in the chapter he talks about how secrecy is non the same as secretiveness.
"Secretiveness is hiding something out of shame, out of humiliation, out of selfishness. But secrecy, as a holy habit, is hiding something out of humility…
Jesus says in Matthew six:1, 'Be conscientious not to exercise your acts of righteousness before men, to be seen by them.' He goes on to give three examples–giving, praying, and fasting–where we should do these things in secret so that our Father, who sees, volition advantage usa. And then be careful non to exercise your acts of righteousness before men, to exist seen by them. It's that last role that we need to emphasize:to be seen by them. It's non that we never permit anyone see us doing practiced deeds. Just a chapter earlier in Matthew, Jesus tells u.s.a. to 'allow your lite polish before men, that they may see your proficient deeds and praise your Male parent in sky' (Matthew 5:16). It all comes downwards to motive, and the options are stark: Either we practice things in order to be seen past others, or we exercise them in order to bring praise to God" (p. 183-184).
By sharing this serial with you, I've wanted all forth for God to be glorified through our acts of kindness and for the Holy Spirit to atomic number 82 u.s. to do things for others. I don't desire it to ever become about what we have done to bring glory to ourselves. My motive in sharing with you all has been ii-fold: (1) to hold myself accountable…public accountability works wonders and (2) to share ideas on how to go out of our way to show kindness to others because I myself have trouble coming upwardly with things (which is completely bizarre…how in the earth can I not think of means to be kind???). Simply I feel much amend sharing with you what others are doing rather than what we are doing!
So this week I'd like to indicate out something that someone else is doing instead. If you've never been to the blog Joy's Hope, you seriously demand to bank check it out. Concluding week, I saw on Pinterest that Julie (from Joy's Promise) started the 'Happy 24-hour interval Project' which is very similar to what we've been doing. But she has some AWESOME printables that make our acts of kindness even happier!
Here are the seven ideas (and the ambrosial printables that get with each):
- Day one:Bake your neighbors a special care for.
- Day 2:Write a note of encouragement.
- 24-hour interval iii: Give a gift card to a person who is homeless.
- Day 4: Requite a volume to a friend (or donate to a hospital).
- Day 5:Refresh someone with a bottle of water (or their favorite soda).
- Twenty-four hours 6:Thank someone who serves your state or community.
- Day seven:Assemble blessing bags to give to the needy or those who are homeless.
These printables (and their ideas) are and so perfect! Caput on over to Joy's Hope!
And be sure to link upwardly your calendar week 2 posts below. If you haven't written yours already, I encourage you to 'brag' on someone else and their acts of kindness!
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