Notes from the Bookshelf: Small Things with Great Love

Have you ever crossed paths with someone and without even talking directly to them or knowing them, you can see that they have Jesus in them? They’re just filled with the Holy Spirit and you know they’re good stuff? Is that you? Is it not?

This week Debbie cracked open our love shells with some truth and advice on how to serve those around you in small ways that make great impacts.  In every situation where you have the opportunity to show love or serve others, check in with yourself first. If that opportunity stresses you out or you feel obligated to do it, it will still bless someone else but it’s not really the genuine overflow of Jesus in you. 

There are so many things in our lives that keep us from reaching out but there are very simple solutions to fixing those.  From the book, Small Things with Great Love: Adventures in Loving Your Neighbor by Margot Starbuck, Debbie offered up solutions to avoid those stop signs.  If you’re too busy, maybe cut out some luxuries or absolute urgencies (like cutting the grass or doing the 100^th load of laundry) and make time for someone or something that Jesus would put first. Pull the ignorance blindfolds off and see the world around you, and that world can be as big as your household.

Our lives can offer constant serving opportunities, whether you are married, a parent, or a caregiver.  Add a little light and salt to your attitude and actions.  Jesus didn’t live a life of ease, luxury, and endless time and if we truly seek him and live for him, we won’t either.  But as we read in Matthew 16:25, “Whoever loses (her) life for my sake will find it.”