Today one of my most wonderful, and deserving sisters received a blessing. She has been wanting a particular perfume. It is a little pricey so she was not going to buy it for herself. She is a selfless soul and is always pouring herself into someone so it was a pure blessing today when someone (my nephews wife, not her son) gifted her with this perfume.
When I heard of it I really like crying for her. It did my heart good that someone would bless my sister like that. Angelica was a blessing to her. Thank you Angelica for your willingness to do what we should all be doing.
I would like to take a moment and give a thank you to my mother, for without her example I would probably not know what it is like to be a blessing to people. She lived blessing by example. My mother, although not perfect, was one of the most Goldy women I have ever met. She knows what it means to live the words out "What Would Jesus Do?" Honestly I have to say this right now, I really hate that saying. Most people only use it to beat you up with anyways and if you are a Christian you should really not even have to ask the question.
But my mom always lived that saying by example. It was the "right thing to do" she would say.
My mom worked at a bus station, at night, at one time in our lives and I remember waking up early to find a strange man sleeping on our couch. My mother had brought a perfectly strange young man to our home because he had no place to go and his connecting bus didn't leave until later that day. Then she fed him breakfast and took him back to the bus station. That was my mom.
My mom and I were going somewhere and as we were driving down the street she spotted an elderly woman trying to carry bags of groceries. So my mom turned the car around came up alongside the woman and offered to carry her and her groceries home. The woman gladly took us up on our offer. Now that was nice enough but my mother never stops at nice enough, no. After we loaded the woman's groceries into the back of the car and I moved to the backseat, we drove her to her home, then we helped take her groceries inside and put them away.
She was always doing things like that. She led by example. I do not believe I heard her say, now should I do these things, or "What would Jesus do?" As a christian woman she already knew the answer. She showed kindness to strangers and in so doing was a blessing.
I love the fact that I got to see love in action. Because you see, to me being kind to people, even those that do not deserve it, blessing them, saying kind things to them, complimenting them, is love in action. Love is a verb.
I love little things that you do in life can be a blessing. Blessings don't always have to be big. When my kids were teenagers we were blessed to meet a single mom who was struggling financially. Trying to make it on her own and needing a bit of a hand. We watched her little girl for as small of a price that we could possibly do and I always made sure to invite her for dinner and send the leftovers home with her just so she could take them for her lunch the next day. We tried to bless her in every way that we could. She started going to church with us and she is a wonderful christian woman walking with God and being a blessing herself these days. She just became a grandma for the first time.
Blessings don't have to be big. Some blessings are giving someone a sandwich when they forgot their lunch. Or taking teenagers to an old folks home (I don't know if that is the politically correct term) and letting them sing to them. It could be volunteering in a classroom. It could be taking dinner over to a family that just lost a family member or has someone in the hospital.
Blessings come in many different forms.
In Acts 10:38 we are told that "Everywhere Jesus went He was doing good." He was the great example. He was and is the ultimate blessing.
So who are you blessing today? Pour yourself into someone, whether you think they deserve it or not. You will truly get more out of blessing someone than they will get from your blessing. Let God's love pour through you. Do not grow weary in well doing. Bless someone as if you are doing it unto the Lord.
And as I finish, I pray that the Lord would "Bless your socks off!"
Be a blessing!!!
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