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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

20 Things To Do When You Feel Powerless

20 Things To Do When You Feel Powerless

1. Love God.

2. Love your neighbor.

3. Listen to your neighbor. Listen to understand, not to reply.

4. When you speak to your neighbor, speak in love. Speak truth. Speak to delight. Speak to encourage. Speak to serve.

5. Serve.

6. Forgive.

7. Learn something new.

8. Create. Play music. Draw. Paint. Garden.

9. Make the world a more beautiful place.

10. Invite someone to join you.

11. Read a book that will enlarge your heart and imagination and place you in another person’s shoes.

12. Teach.

13. Practice integrity. Practice it more. Even when no one is looking. Especially when no one is looking.

14. Share your home.

15. Overcome a challenge.

16. Don’t lie. Even when you don’t think you’ll get caught.

17. Smile at your children. Smile at strangers.

18. Help a stranger.

19. Tell good stories.

20. Be filled with gratitude for this astounding gift called life.

5 comments:

Andrea said...

Thank you for this.

Misha said...

This is beautiful. Thank you, Heidi. It's so true.

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Gwen said...

Overcoming a challenge does remind you have that you have strength and power in Christ to overcome all obstacles.

Laura at By the Bushel said...

'Practice integrity. Practice it more. Even when no one is looking. Especially when no one is looking.' Yes. This. Thank you for this post today.