Kindness To Strangers

Kindness to Strangers.

Hey girls and guys! Hope you’re all happy and healthy and enjoy this new blog!

Let's start...
So what does being kind mean to you? Personally?
Well to me it means putting others needs before your own and helping them and being humble towards them.
A lot of people in this world just think about them and don't think about their actions or the consequences of their actions. This is really sad to me, I worked as a waitress for just under year and witnessed first-hand how mean and selfish people can be towards strangers! I had to 'cope' with rude customers and employers it wasn't a nice working environment to work in but I had to continue until finding another job, which I have now! I write this blog knowing I have 1 more shift in being a waitress and I'm so blessed to be out of that negative environment but some people are still in these places and feel trapped. We need to make places like these feel welcome and positive!

Manners cost absolutely nothing, there free, and people of the world love receiving free stuff so why not take advantage of manners there free and can put a smile on someone's face so easily.

I have been brought up using manners for everything, if I didn't say please for something I wouldn't get it, if I didn't say thank you for something then my parents would say ' and what do you say?' So manners have been enforced in my life pretty severely but children of the world today see adults do something and they mimic them, so if adults remember to use kindness and manners and smile at strangers then the children will pick up on this, and hopefully change their social patterns and be kind to strangers.

Jesus was always kind to strangers and people loved him, follow in his footsteps and be kind to strangers, we are all on this journey together we need to work together and take care of the planet together!

Acts Chapter 20 Verse 35- It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Galatians Chapter 6 Verse 9 - Let us not lose heart in doing good.

Hebrews Chapter 13 Verse 2- Remember to welcome strangers in your homes. There were some who did that and welcomed angels without knowing it.

I feel good when I’ve helped others, and so will you! Giving your time to a stranger up the street for a quick chat might simply make their day, why not take 10 minutes out of your day to help others and inspire others.

We are all God’s children and need to stick together and simply be kind to one another! We don’t have to like everyone but we need to love everyone, as we are loved unconditionally forever.

This is a piece I found from a Children’s Bible by Henry A. Sherman and Charles Foster Kent.

Certain Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, "Go away from here; for Herod wishes to kill you." He said to them, "Go and tell that fox, 'See, I cast out evil spirits and cure the sick to-day and to-morrow, but on the third day I must go on my way; for it cannot be that a prophet will be put to death anywhere except in Jerusalem.'"

Jesus left Capernaum and went into the land of Tyre and Sidon. Going into a house, he wished that no one should know that he was there, but he could not escape notice. Soon a woman whose little daughter had an evil spirit heard of him and came and knelt at his feet. Now the woman was a heathen of the Phoenician race. She begged him to drive the evil spirit out of her daughter, but he said to her, "Let the children of Israel first be fed, for it is not fair to take their bread and throw it to the dogs!" She answered him, "True, sir, yet the little dogs under the table do eat the children's crumbs." He said to her, "Because of this answer go to your home; the evil spirit has gone out of your daughter." On returning home she found the child lying on the bed and the evil spirit gone from her.

Jesus again left the land of Tyre and passed through Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, crossing the land of Decapolis. The people brought to him a deaf man, who also stammered; and they begged Jesus to lay his hand on him.

Jesus took the man away from the crowd, put his fingers into the man's ears, touched his tongue with saliva, and looking up to heaven, sighed, and said to him, "Ephphatha" (which means "Open"). And at once, the man could hear and could talk without stammering.

Then Jesus told them to tell no one, but in spite of what he said the people kept telling about it, saying: "How well he has done everything! He even makes the deaf hear, and the dumb speak."

WE were made in Gods image and if the son of God is kind to strangers and doesn't ask to receive anything from it, then so should we.

Remember guys and gals take at least 10 minutes a day to be kind and go out of your way to help others. Even write a log of your acts of kindness to remind yourself to pray for that person who you were kind too.

Document your acts and also you can document people who need prayer and maybe share it at your church or even twitter!

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Hope you enjoyed it

Lots of Love

Jessica Louise Xoxo