CTNYC: Day 5

First thing I"ll mention is, MERRY CHRISTMAS GUYS. :D

Ok, the Challenge for Day 5 is:

GO DOOR TO DOOR AND HAND OUT CHRISTIAN MATERIAL. Little Bibles, booklets on various subjects from your Church book table. You can even ask your Pastor to print you little articles to hand out, or you can recycle those Christian magazines and newsletters that you've already read and have stacked on a shelf. :) It just might do someone a world of good.

CTNYC: Day 4

For Day 4, I want ya'll to:

PERFORM A RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS.

Leave $20 in a card on a random strangers car. Pay for someone's lunch at a restaurant. Take a meal over to an old lady from church. Make a donation to the animal rescue. I'm sure you can think of something. :)

CTNYC: Day 3

Day 3.

SHOW APPRECIATION.

Tell someone (or multiple someone's) that you appreciate what they do. Leave your mailman a little note in the box saying how you appreciate him braving the weather to deliver your mail. Or your garbage man. And anyone else you can think of. It'll give them an extra boost for the day to know that they aren't taken for granted, and give them a little more motivation to do their jobs better.

Countdown to New Years Challenge: Day 2

Alright, so for day two, I'd like you all to

VOLUNTEER.

At the Food Bank, Salvation Army, Toy Drive, Animal Shelter, Homeless Shelter, or any other Charitable event that I'm missing. :)

You'd be surprised how much you could make a difference and how people appreciate it.

Preparing for New Years Challenge: Day One

As we all know, it is almost Christmas, and therefore, close to the year 2015. Everyone has "New Years Resolutions", but I'm going to (try) to post one thing every day as a Challenge to the readers. And please, comment below if you do them and tell me how it went for you!

Starting today: Number One

TELL SOMEONE YOU LOVE THEM-Preferably someone you haven't said it to in a long time.

I was just at a funeral today, and it always shows you how short life is. Too short to just assume people know how you feel about them. And once they're gone, it's too late.

I have given you your challenge. Go forth and perform. :)

Compassion: Kind of a Big Deal

Compassion, is a subject sort of near and dear to my heart I guess you could say. Some people have told me that I can be too compassionate and this will get me into trouble. Maybe it's because I'm an INFP and it's just the way God made me. I don't know. I do know that it is possible to be too compassionate. But I also know there is also a thing as not being compassionate enough.

So I'm going to talk about that a little bit tonight. Of course, lets start with a verse or two. And I'll give you the definition of compassion.

"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them"~Matthew 7:12

"Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: [he is] gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous."~Psalm 112:4  

"Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved,  compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and,  if one has a complaint against another,  forgiving each other;  as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive." ~Colossians 3:12-13

NOUN

noun: compassion · plural noun: compassions

sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others:
"the victims should be treated with compassion"
synonyms: pity · sympathy · empathy · fellow feeling · care · concern ·
solicitude · sensitivity · warmth · love · tenderness · mercy · leniency · tolerance · kindness · humanity · chariy
 

Compassion can be many things.
Sometimes it's giving food or clothes to someone who has none.
Sometimes it's seeing a grieving person and giving them a hug.
It can be seeing someone who needs a friend, and you step in and become the friend they needed.
It can even be as simple as offering a kind word.

I think one of the world's biggest problems is it's lack of compassion. Of course this is the result of the Fall, but we should not use that as an excuse. God commands us to be compassionate and so we need to make it a priority.

Now you might say; "well I'm just not all squishy-feely like that," or "well I'm just not a compassionate person." But let me ask you, dear readers; Do you think God is going to accept that kind of excuse?

Everything that we do-or don't do-has to be answered for at the end of this world. We are going to have to stand before God. What are you going to say to him?

"I'm sorry God, I just was too busy to help out with my Church Food Drive today."

"Well I didn't think about helping that old lady with her groceries Lord. I had somewhere to be."

"I didn't think I had to apologize to my friend for hurting his feelings. I mean, he should've gotten over it right? I figured he knew I didn't mean it."

"No I didn't bother to stop and try to understand someone's POV on things. It would have been stupid anyway."

Somehow, I don't think God is going to like any of those answers, especially when he was compassionate enough towards us to punish his only Son so that we wouldn't burn in Hell.

So here is my challenge to you. Make more of an effort to be kind and compassionate from now on. Think about how God would want you to act towards the person in front of you or how he would want you to respond to a situation. Does it take work? Of course it does! Nothing God asks us to do is easy. But we still have to do it, because we are His Children.

Jesus performed the ultimate act of compassion towards us. How can you do any less for anyone else?

 

Brand New Blog

Well, the Christian Teen Writer Blog www.inthecharactersshadow.blogspot.com is finally up and running! We'll be doing Book Breakdowns, writing tips and a little randomness every week so please check it out and share!

Announcements and Apologies.

Happy December everyone! :)

Things are crazy right now, getting ready for Christmas. I love Christmas, gift giving is so much fun! I haven't had a lot of time for my poor Blog, sorry about that. :( But I have two announcements to make:

1) I did not win the 2014 NaNoWriMo. :( I didn't even reach 10,000 words.

2) The ChriTeNo's Blog, (Christian Teen Novelists) is almost ready to go! So excited about that, will post the link ASAP.

And that's actually all for now. Hopefully I'll get back to posting here soon.