Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

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When I first read this I knew that I must share it.  This list of questions from the ladies of Beauty of the Heart hits right to the core and exposes us for who we truly are…

• Do you act out of obedience to Christ and a passion for His glory–or your own?
• How do you spend your time?
• How much of your time per day is spent chatting with friends (online, on the phone or in person)?
• How much of your time per day is spent daily in conversation with family members?
• How much of your time is spent daily speaking to God?
• How often do you meditate on the Cross? (Once a day? Once a week? Once a year?)
• Do you set time aside every day for prayer and Bible study?
• Do you try to faithfully obey God in public and at home?
• Do you ask God for the grace to help you obey consistently?
• What people, books, movies, etc. influence you the most?
• Do you read books, watch movies, or listen to music that does not encourage your walk with Christ? Do you think this is wise?
• Are your friends fellow Christians who are seeking after godliness? Or do they encourage you in gossip and ungodly thoughts?
• If so, do you also join in that gossip and allow those thoughts to dominate your mind?
• What are your main spheres of influence?
• What steps could you take to become a stronger influence of a Christ-like attitude to friends, siblings, neighbors, relatives, etc.?
• Do you actively serve in your community?
• When making decisions, do you consider how they affect others?

Wow, talk about a lot of questions, but they’re terribly accurate.  I would add one of A.W. Tozer’s questions where he asks “Where does your mind go when you have nothing else pertinent to think about?”

Hopefully it wasn’t last father’s day.  And yet telling your dad that you love him, for a son, is one of the most awkward things you can do if the father didn’t set out building that degree of transparency all the way up.

I can’t remember the first time I ever told my grandfather I loved him—but it was later on in life.  As his life started nearing its end, I made sure that a conversation did not go by where I let him know that I loved him.

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David Plotz and Hanna Rosin decided to put their love and marriage of 11 years to the test by trying not to be more than 15 feet apart an entire day.  They were inspired by a couple of buddhists that were doing the same thing for 10 years, and they wondered what a day would be like. 

What they found was interesting.  Though neither of them wanted to do it the following day, they learned a lot about who the other person was and a lot about what spending time together truly meant.

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Having trouble trying to figure out what do you with your sweetheart next week?  Let Weekend Kindness help you with some ideas:

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What a great list of links we have for this carnival– please take the time to visit these people, and let me know what you think!  Thank them for being a part of today’s carnival.

Lin Burress presents So Sexy, So Soon: The Sexualization of Childhood in Commercial Culture posted at Telling It Like It Is.

Theresa L. Twogood presents Just What If…What Then? posted at OLIN e-Book e-Publishing.

Michael Snyder presents 10 Powerful Secrets For How To Build A Great Marriage posted at Shattered Paradigm.

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Starting this weekend we will be trying a new format here at Weekend Kindness.  We’ll be giving our name new meaning as we will be posting only on the weekends!

If all goes as planned, what you’ll get is multiple posts on different topics on the weekend (like a weekly magazine) and then we can talk about the topics during the week.

I’m actually excited about this change and look forward to seeing what our great writers come up with!

This is what my oldest son told me he was doing for his younger brother– whose birthday is this Wednesday.

My oldest is growing into liking to do crafts– whether it’s pipe cleaners or paper, every week when he gets home from church his paper has a new idea he wants to try.  And the names he gives things!

In any case, his latest thing is that he is going to make a paper sword because the pipe cleaner swords that he made keep falling apart.

What I love is the fact that he’s thinking of his brother, and not himself.  He knows that this is a special day for his brother, and wants to give a gift.  It’s that small thing that counts– the small thing that he wants to do to show his brother his love.