So, 12 days. 12 days to be in the season of giving and doing things for others. That's your challenge!
Each day for 12 days find something you/we can do for someone else. There are so many ideas. And try to choose something one of the days that maybe you wouldn't really enjoy doing, but that you know would help someone else. (Maybe you don't like to watch other peoples' kids, but you know the parents need that time to go Christmas shopping.) Make it a selfless act!
Make a meal for someone.
Shovel your neighbor's driveway.
Bring a friend a coffee when you go to Starbucks or Caribou.
Surprise someone with cookies you made!
Write someone you haven't talked to in a while a letter telling them you're thinking of them.
Visit the nursing home and just chat with someone who has no family around.
Send some flowers (anonymously even) to somebody!
Walk a friend's dog for them.
Take part in Operation Christmas Child.
Pay for the person behind you in a drive-thru.
Be a Christmas Angel.
There are so many things that cost little, or NO, money! I'd love to hear what ideas you have, or what you are going to do. Write your 12 days down on paper. That way you hold yourself accountable! Then write it on here to give others ideas. There is no time frame here. It can start 12 days before Christmas, or it can start now and be intermittent until Christmas!
I'm writing this challenge early enough that we have time to think about what you (and I) are going to do! Remember, Christ gave his whole life for all of us. We can surely take a few hours over 12 days to show others that we care! Read this, and feel the joy that someone else could get from one small thing you do!
I hope you accept this challenge!
God bless!
Each day for 12 days find something you/we can do for someone else. There are so many ideas. And try to choose something one of the days that maybe you wouldn't really enjoy doing, but that you know would help someone else. (Maybe you don't like to watch other peoples' kids, but you know the parents need that time to go Christmas shopping.) Make it a selfless act!
Make a meal for someone.
Shovel your neighbor's driveway.
Bring a friend a coffee when you go to Starbucks or Caribou.
Surprise someone with cookies you made!
Write someone you haven't talked to in a while a letter telling them you're thinking of them.
Visit the nursing home and just chat with someone who has no family around.
Send some flowers (anonymously even) to somebody!
Walk a friend's dog for them.
Take part in Operation Christmas Child.
Pay for the person behind you in a drive-thru.
Be a Christmas Angel.
There are so many things that cost little, or NO, money! I'd love to hear what ideas you have, or what you are going to do. Write your 12 days down on paper. That way you hold yourself accountable! Then write it on here to give others ideas. There is no time frame here. It can start 12 days before Christmas, or it can start now and be intermittent until Christmas!
I'm writing this challenge early enough that we have time to think about what you (and I) are going to do! Remember, Christ gave his whole life for all of us. We can surely take a few hours over 12 days to show others that we care! Read this, and feel the joy that someone else could get from one small thing you do!
I hope you accept this challenge!
God bless!
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