Tag: good

The Cheerful Giver

Jennifred Jones

It’s been said true giving is a sacrifice, it should be hard, something you don’t want to do… give something you don’t want to… or aren’t really able to give….to prove you are a sacrificial giver.

Yet — giving is really a heart thing!

You can’t make someone love another person. You can’t make yourself love someone you don’t.

You can’t make yourself want to want to give.

If we give something and we don’t really want to is it a good thing? Is it an acceptable ‘sacrifice’? Does it make it worthy and acceptable because we gave against our will?

I think God is more interested in our heart than he is in our gift—to him or anybody else!

It’s a pliability of our heart where God will give us a thought to do something for someone, send a care package to a friend, bake a dish for a neighbor, buy the meal for the car behind you at McDonalds….and you have almost an ecstatic feeling to do it.

That’s the cheerful heart I’m talking about.

That removes us from the ‘works’ category… doing it ‘because I have to’, or ‘it’s my duty’ … a drudgery type ‘giving’.

This cheerful heart and willing-giving will come as we change how we see the world, other people, even ourselves.

Oh God, help me see the good instead of the other…

Borrowed Beauty

Jennifred Jones

So you don’t have time, you don’t have space, you don’t have money to design, plan or develop your longed for garden oasis.

Maybe you don’t have a green thumb….NO problem!

Go take a walk, go to the park, the arboretum, a greenhouse, or open a picture book.

Drive to the river, follow the creek, go to the woods or fields where you can borrow other beauty to refresh yourself!

Stay as long as you need until you become and can feel good inside.

Borrow all you want! No check out, no late fees, but plenty of good returns!

I’m on a Mission

Jennifred Jones

I am on a mission to bring as much good to this world as I can with the capacities I’ve been enabled.

I want to encourage as many people as possible to see the good things already going on in their lives, already going on in this world of ours and be thankful and commit to uphold and multiply them.

God made us a perfectly good world and He expects us to be good users of it…to take good care of it….to improve it, to make it better.

I think it disturbs the heart of God when we trash what He’s given us, whether it’s our body, our family, our homes and yards or places we go.

We’re in a warfare folks; a warfare with ourselves!

Can we decide we’re going to choose to do good… or do we want to side in with the opposition—looking for troubles, complaining and being unthankful? There are people out there who need us, they need our encouragement, they need our good ideas, they need life, they need freedom, they need compassion, concern and care. They need our help to find their way.

Who are we to hold back what we have from contributing to our world according to our unique and individual giftings?

I think we need to rouse ourselves out of this lethargy and say to ourselves–seek within ourselves–what do I have to bring to the table to help whatever situation I am in….as a people trying to live together in this, our world?

Today, I will do one good deed, think one good thought about myself.

Today, I will do one good deed, think one good thought about someone else.

Today, I will plan for tomorrow to do one good deed, think one good thought…..and then repeat.

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