This was my meditation for the day on Thursday this week. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Make yourself a blessing to someone. Your kind smile or pat on the back just might pull someone back from the edge. - Carmelia Elliott
Someone will be helped today by your kindness. Compassionate attention assures others that they do matter, and every one of us needs that reassurance occasionally.
Offering words of encouragement to them, or a willing ear, can be unexpected gifts. They will be deeply appreciated.
The real gift, though, is to ourselves. Helping someone in need benefits the helper even more. Our own closeness to God and thus assurance about our own being is strengthened each time we do Gods work - each time we do what our hearts direct.
We are healed in our healing of others. God speaks to us through our words to others. Our own well-being is enhanced each time we put someone else's well-being first.
We're on a trip, following different road maps, but to the same destination. I will be ready to lend a helping hand to a troubled traveler today. It will breathe new life into my own trip.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
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beautiful, such an inspiration,
ReplyDeleteSo true. One of the things that will almost always turn my attitude around is forcing myself to be nice to people, going out of my way to help someone else.
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