Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

Randy Travis, anyone?

I like Alison Krauss as it is?but this is a great song.

If there?s one thing that I?ve learned while being between jobs, it?s that there are always needs and the more that you?re able to meet the needs around you, the more the people that are around you will be blessed.

So, this weekend, be alert to the needs around you?it could be something as simple as needing some help getting into or out of a store, helping do a chore around the house that you do not normally do, or being a friend to someone in need?but meet that need.

Don?t do a half job.  Don?t get in it half-way and bale.  Make the decision to meet a need and finish the job.

You?ll be happy you did, and you?ll have made a difference.

Some of you may or may not know this, but I have another blog that seeks to help wives know what their husbands think and what they believe.  I?m currently going through a set of things that I believe hurt both spouses, and I?d like to highlight 5 things I believe that wives believe that they shouldn?t.

1. It?s Ok to Let Children Change The Relationship

Children definitely add a different dynamic to the household, but if you let them get in between you and your spouse, the odds are that it could create a rift that?s not easily healed.  Many couples let the children become their lives, and lose their identity in them.  When the children are gone, what happens is that there are two people that haven?t been growing together?not a good thing.

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In the above cartoon, Thor gets into trouble because of deception.  The lesson to be learned is that you should be honest with those you deal with.  Honesty is kindness because it?s telling the person that you respect them enough to deal truthfully with them.

The amazing thing about a lie is that you usually have to tell more to keep the first one going, and they eventually are found out?if not now, sometime in the future.

Best to tell the truth!

It was eight years ago today that my wife and I got married?I remember that day very well.

We spent the night before getting the hall where we?d eat the reception all ready, before heading a half hour away for the rehearsal dinner.  That night, the guys all shared a room, and I got the roll-away.

The funny thing was the next morning.  Having packed my car for the honeymoon, I?d left all my toiletries in the car?back a half hour away!  So, we rushed back to the church to get the things I needed, and a half hour before the ceremony I?m in the men?s room, shaving.

That was about the time that my sister-in-law came around with the video camera asking if I had anything to say to my soon bride.  Needless to say, with half a face of shaving cream I should have said something, but I did not.

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What can a story called The Pearl Necklace teach us?  That while we hold onto things that we think are the best, we may be missing something even better.

One of the chapel sermons that I heard at Bob Jones University that stuck with me the most was the one preached by Dr. Greg Mazak1.  In it, he said that if God was going to offer us a BMW, and we had a beat up VW Beetle, why would we refuse the BMW?  And yet that?s what many Christians do because they miss the fact that God has our best in mind, even when we do not see it.

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1. He was also the teacher for Counseling Techniques and General Psychology and had his doctorate in New Testament Theology.