Make A Difference Monday

Dear friends,

I feel it is my duty to compel you to give. Giving to others in any way you see fit actually helps you. Have you ever gone through a tough time? Have you ever felt stressed out daily? Perhaps that describes where you are today. When you give to others, you open up blessings into your life. First, you will have a general positive feeling towards yourself and that in turn will help to reduce stress.

At my church, Pastor Herbert said, "just do it!" Which made me take stock of my volunteer activities. Currently, I volunteer once a month to moderate the online service, which is a full days task. I have committed to play keyboards for Epic, the Wednesday meeting for high school and junior high students, which is a weekly assignment.

Now comes the question, am I giving enough? The answer is not known and I intend to pray about it. I think perhaps running lights or some other production task once a month could be doable for my schedule. I run into the problem of my husband, who loves God and goes to church with me but does not volunteer. When I am giving at church, he stays at home. I know there is no easy answer but I will continue to seek God's wisdom. 

How do you give? Share your story with me so I can be inspired by you.

Make A Difference Monday

I love it when having fun and helping the community combine in one amazing experience. This weekend I ran the color me rad race, which sponsored the cystic fibrosis - sooner chapter (Cystic Fibrosis - Sooner Chapter). This is a well organized race and always supports a local non-profit. I had a lot of fun trying to get covered in color. 

I think everyone had fun and one of my tweeps at Leslie at a Body Won't Break told me about the color run in October. I'm planning on getting a team together. Please stay tuned for Travel Tuesday: Egyptian Adventure.

Make A Difference Monday

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.” (Luke 6:38 WEB)

This weekend was work! I was judging a college speech competition. Certainly I had fun and enjoyed most of the speeches. I did my best to give feedback to the students. At the end my reward was $100 cash and that was pretty sweet. The lesson here is to give back and it will be given back to you. Please stay tuned for weight loss Wednesday!

List

Today I wrote an interesting list of things I'd like to do for a paycheck. I got to 100 different ideas, some crazy and some not.

My prayer list includes peace, miracles, patience, and wisdom. I am in need and I know that God will give generously.  My timeframe may be off from God's unfortunately.