Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven - Matthew 5:3
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbors. Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
The experiments for this week:
(the study suggests each person within the group picking one and sharing about the experience):
1) Fast from food for a period of time as a way of making yourself aware of its physical and
emotional ownership over you. Think about how important food is to us; then reflect on
Christ's suggestion that life is more important than food.
2) Skip a meal and use the money to go grocery shopping; then donate everything to the local food
pantry. Try to buy things you would like, not just the cheapest stuff on the shelf.
3) Try being generous this week. Instead of spending extra cash on new clothes or music, spend it
on a friend who doesn't have as much as you.
4) Sleep on the floor for a week. Think about how life might be different if you didn't have a
comfy home. Remember, with less of you, there is more room for God
5) Go to alexslemonade.com and give a donation to help fund cancer research for dying children.
Those who are sick often see God's kingdom much differently than we do.
6) Minimize your use of electricity - books instead of TV, line dry instead of tumble dry,
candlelight instead of 100 watts. Consider donating to your electric company's poverty account.
7) Find something you feel that you can not live without and give it away. Practice what it means
to be dependent on God.
The instructions are to pick one but I am feeling extra ambitious and will go with numbers 2 and 6 (I just turned the lights off in my office). I will post an update later in the week.
4 comments:
28So excited-picked #3. Been carrying around a gift of money given to me. The gift was special but the giver even more so. I wanted to keep it until a REALLY special occasion came up. Well...yesterday was the day. A real God thing. A co-worker told me about a young man with no dental insurance who needed 3 teeth pulled and 6 cavities filled. He was in tremendous pain. I gave her my gift of $$ for him-so excited. God is good!!!
I'm working on #6!! And we have tons of laundry from our China trip so we should save a LOT!!
I am going of the page to find a new neighbor. I am going to go a visit a janitor at our school who woke up yesterday to find her son dead. Pray that she will see the hope and comfort of the Lord with my visit as she does with her friends and family.
The plan for me was to make a donation to the poverty account of the local power company but I found out they don't have an account. While I was there the person working the counter had to ask the rest of the group for the "assistance list". Immediately I thought "they are going to think I am the one needing assistance?" I was convicted and humbled because people have to do that out of necessity all the time. It was awkward for me and I wasn't dealing with all the other stresses of not being able to make ends meet.
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