Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

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Each and every day presents us with a chance to make a difference in the lives of those around us.  We impact each person that we interact with on different levels, and the strange thing is that most of the time we don’t even think about how we will interact– even though if we did we could dramatically improve our relationships.

With that in mind, I want to ask you this question: What will you do this weekend to say “I love you?” It could be to your spouse, your family, or some friend, but if we start to ask the question now we should have something in mind so that when the time comes we actually have a better chance of making a difference in someone’s life.

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The other way to ask this question is: How do you juggle blogging and family time?

For me, I tend to try to leverage (I know buzz-speak) the times that I’m still awake and the family is not.  So, I end up staying up late at night to write posts for all my blogs.

I did try mornings for a little while, but I found that I was much more likely to wake someone up when I got up in the morning than I was when I worked late into the night.

And, of course, how late I can work and how much I get done is a factor of when I get started.  The later I get started, the less I get done.

How about you?  Do you blog when the kids are around, or do you find odd hours as well?

So, here’s your chance…  What did you do this weekend that was kind?

My weekend has been a blur, but there are always many opportunities to be kind– especially in the store.

The other day there was someone looking for Mootserella cheese– I showed them where the Mozzarella cheese was.

Saturday I found something to buy for my sister, but it was missing something inside the box.  I brought it to the attention of one of the employees and they were thankful that I brought it to their attention before someone else took it home and was unhappy.

And then there was taking my kids to the dollar store so they could get some new pirate action figures…

How about you?

You can tell a lot about what people value by the place that items are given.  This year, as you get down your Christmas decorations, where will you put different items and what will draw the attention of guests to your house?

I’m certain that many of us will have a tree, gifts around it, lights inside or outside and probably a nativity of some kind.  Some of us will have the three wise men in the nativity,and some will have them in another room to symbolize the fact that they didn’t show up in Bethlehem until Jesus was no longer a baby and was about two years old.

But what will your display this year say about you, about who you are and about your faith?

Here’s a tough question.  I don’t know about you, but it seems that Christmas has become (especially now that I’m older) all about telling people what they can get me so that they get me something I want rather than what I remember it as a child– a time of surprises.

Now, granted, I’m not sure that many children actually look forward to getting something that they don’t want.  One of my worst memories of Christmas centers around this very thing.

I was at my grandparent’s house for the usual Saturday Christmas time get together and I don’t know where everyone else was, but it was just my family and I still there and I opened a gift that was a backpack– something that I really wanted– but I thought it was clothing so I said “Not more clothes!”  Needless to say, this embarrassed my parents and they took me aside to tell me how wrong my reaction was.

But all this to say ask, have we strayed so far away from what Christmas is that we now judge gifts by how they compare to what we really want?  Is it wrong to do returns to get what we really want?  And how does that show kindness to the one doing the giving?