What’s the one thing you can do today to make a difference in the lives of the people around you? Think about that for a moment. If you don’t come up with anything let me challenge you to try harder.
There are people in your life no one can help like you can. You help them. It could be a simple thing like a kind greeting in passing. If that’s what you got go for it, but I’m betting you can dig a little deeper. So go on, swing for the fence on this one.
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Make a batch of cookies and pass them out to your neighborhood. Read an extra bed time story to your kids. Cook dinner AND do the dishes—or if you always do the cooking and cleaning make someone else in the house so it.
If you’re a follower of Jesus like I am, you’ve got a light inside you this world needs. Do something with it. Don’t be content to hide it away or hold it back. Let it out into your everyday world.
Don’t overcomplicate it, and for goodness sake, please don’t make it weird. Just make it joy. Joy is life and joy is strength. Our world could use more joy. Be the ambassador of joy in your neighborhood, your marketplace, and your living room. Give it away like cake at a birthday party.