Be a Blessing :Do to Others as you Would have Them do to you

Blessings and hugs! I send  much much love to each of you today and everyday. Today I encourage you to treat others as you would yourself. Perhaps like the story below.. your blessing  will reciprocate a blessing back to you when you really need one. Please read and share and encourage others with anything and everything that blesses your heart and soul on this blog and any of the others. be a Blessing today Do unto others as you would have them do to you. {{{{{HUGS}}}}  XOXO <3  God bless you each, Barb GadwayInspirational stories about kindness

A poor boy was selling goods from one door to another to pay for his studies. One day he found that he had only one dime left, and he was hungry. While approaching the next house, he decided to ask for a meal. But when a young woman has opened the door, he only dared to ask for a glass of water. She looked at him and understood, that probably the boy is hungry. So she brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it and then asked, how much did he owe her. The woman replied: „You don‘t own me anything. Mother taught us never to accept pay for a kindness“. „Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart“, – he said and felt that now is stronger not only physically, but his faith in God has grown as well. The boy‘s name was Howard Kelly. Many year have passed. One day that woman became seriously ill. Local doctors could not help her, therefore they sent her to a big city, where her rare disease would be studied by specialists. Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he entered her room in the hospital, he immediately recognized the woman, that showed kindness to him, when he was poor. The doctor was determined to do his best to help her recover from her disease. The stuggle was long, but together they managed to overcome her illness. After some time the woman received a bill for her treatment. She was worried that the amount to pay would be so significant, that it would take the rest of her life to pay for it. Finally, when the woman looked at the bill, she noticed words that were written on the side of the bill. The words were: „Paid in full with a glass of milk“.http://inspirationalstories.eu/inspirational_stories/inspirational_stories_about_kindness.php Luke 6:31 New International Version (NIV) 31 Do to others as you would have them do to you. Wherever there is a human in need, there is an opportunity for kindness and to make a difference. Kevin Heath Ceo More4kids

Be a Blessing: Show Hospitality to Others

Greetings!  I hope and pray that your day is truly beginning beautifully. Todays words of encouragement  show Hospitality to others. So often in todays world  it seems like simple acts of hospitality went out with the dinosaurs {so to speak}  Hospitality is something we should  practice daily. Treat everyone  regardless of color, religion, political affiliation as if they were your  immediate family... as if they live in your same house or apartment. Showing Hospitality is one of the purest forms  I believe of a way to show unconditional love.  here is a gem i found on google search   on ways you can show Hospitality outside the box  . Enjoy and feel free to get out there and show  Hospitality to others in the ways listed or add some of your own... there is never a wrong  way in showing kindness to others.

40+ "Unconventional" Ways of Showing Hospitality

• Host a ladies' Bible study in your home
• Invite friends over for ice cream in your front/back porch, and ask them all to bring their favorite topping
• Host a potluck meal at a local park with several other families
• Take a meal to someone in need (illness, new baby, recent move, loss of a loved one, etc.)
• Invite someone out to eat at a restaurant
• Have a friend and her child(ren) over for a playdate
• Invite a friend to go strawberry/blueberry/apple picking with you
• Invite a visiting pastor/missionary to your church to stay at your home overnight
• Have some friends over for popcorn and a movie
• Invite another family over to make s'mores in the back yard
• Have some girlfriends over for dessert
• Have another couple over to play board/card games after your kids are in bed
• Offer to keep a friend's children for her while she runs some errands
• Invite your church small group to meet in your home
• Have a "cook off" or "bake off" with a little friendly competition where your friends all bring their favorite chili or pizza or cake or... anything, really!
• Host a morning coffee group for other young moms
• In the holiday season, invite friends to come over and work on projects together (gift wrapping, addressing cards) while listening to Christmas music and drinking hot chocolate/cider
• Invite a college student or single adult from your church over for lunch after Sunday services
• Contact the foreign exchange student organization at your local college/university for a list of international students you might invite to your home for a meal
• Include widows in your family's holiday celebrations and everyday life
• Encourage your older children's friends to come over and/or spend the night
• Host a bridal/baby shower at your church or in your home
• Take a basket of breakfast and/or healthy snack foods to a friend who recently had a baby
• Have a group of teenagers from your church (and their un-churched friends) over for snacks/games
• Allow your home to be used for small church gatherings (new member classes, leadership dinners, etc.)
• As your kids get older and if you choose to homeschool, allow clubs (yearbook, chess club, newspaper) to meet in your home
• Invite your neighbors over for a potluck "block party"
• Host family birthday celebrations in your home instead of at a restaurant
• Take a meal to a shut-in or elderly friend (or even a few pieces of sliced watermelon)
• Participate in the hospitality ministry of your local church: greeting visitors, serving coffee or breakfast before services, writing notes to visitors, caring for the needs of the body, decorating the church, etc.
• Be welcoming to overnight guests and make their stay comfortable
• Invite new friends to join your family in specific holiday traditions: attending parades, watching fireworks, hunting for Easter eggs, decorating the Christmas tree, going caroling, etc.
• Host a cookie or soup exchange in the late fall
• Invite people to join you on a hike and a picnic
• Mail homemade goodies to a college student away at school
• Send breakfast foods (muffins, etc.) or desserts (cookies, etc.) to work with your husband to share with his coworkers
• Invite a friend over for a walk in your neighborhood
• Share part of your garden with a friend who doesn't have the space to have a garden of her own
• Prepare cookies, ornaments, cards, and/or small gifts for the residents of a nursing home, then deliver the cards/gifts personally
• After moving into a new house, host an open house so friends can stop by for cookies and lemonade and see your new home

Pray about how God might use your hands and your home in showing biblical hospitality!  Pray that He gives you creativity and intentionality to make it happen!http://www.feathersinournest.com/2013/04/hospitality-outside-box.html
So today and all days  be a Blessing  Show Hospitality to Others .God Bless  Loves and many Hugs  , Barb Gadway XOXO <3

Hospitality means primarily the creation of free space where the stranger can enter and become a friend instead of an enemy. Hospitality is not to change people, but to offer them space where change can take place. It is not to bring men and women over to our side, but to offer freedom not disturbed by dividing lines.” 
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out

1 Peter 4:9 - 

Be hospitable to one another without complaint.

Be a Blessing:Use Words Actions Thoughts of Positive Encouragement

“There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.
But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.” 
― Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

Do you know of someone  who is struggling... or is it you yourself....  just remember for yourself  the struggles are a lesson for you to overcome in this lifetime  and after  the bump   you will be stronger.. smile  and  look forward to another day of the gift of life. without it you can't   feel pain  but also you cant feel  joy.. today is a gift from God cherish it and know the struggle won't last forever.   If you know of another going through a struggle... go to them and help them in any way you can and encourage them... let them know how special they are to you and to God. Encourage with positive thoughts.. actions... and words. 

How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same.” 
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Encourage   your brothers and sisters  with smiles  and positive words. NEVER discuss another person with them in a derogatory manner. If it really doesnt pertain to them don't discuss about another person  with another.this leads to eventually hurt feelings if the party finds out you are talking about them to someone else  something that they confided in you. Gossip good or bad is wrong   try to refrain from doing it. It hurts yourself   as much as it dos the  party you are gossiping about.  For you... people begin to mistrust you. Today and everyday.... Be a Blessing   Use Words  Actions  Thoughts  of Positive Encouragement . Much love Hugs and Blessings galore to each and everyone of you. XOXO  <3  God bless, Barb Gadway

Psalm 34:8
Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him. (NIV)

Be a Blessing:Inspire others with Random Acts of Kindness

Today  I send each of you loves  smiles and hugs and hopes that your day is going wonderfully. I found this wonderful website with stories of kindness that I must share today along with a short kindness story. I pray it will bless you and inspire you. much ,much love <3

The Feeling of Kindness

by Patrick FleglerSubmitted October, 2000

I did a random act of kindness this weekend. I went with my dad from the family that sort of affectionately adopted me, to the UCLA medical center for his final checkup for his prostate cancer operation. His wife couldn't go because of an injured knee. Sunday night, while he was watching a foot ball game, in our hotel room, I finally started reading the book "Selling Lemonade for Free."

Wow! What a great book! I'm not finished yet, but I practiced saying hello to strangers as we got into the elevator, or as others got into the elevator. What a reaction. Nobody ever talks on an elevator, let alone say a greeting to one another. The reaction was heart filling.

Everyone should read this book! I feel that I have practiced most of the suggestions as often as I can. However, I am going to make an even greater point to practice acts of kindness everyday.

http://www.kindnessusa.org/storiesofkindness.htm#89959025

 For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

 For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
 For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
 For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
 For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. 
 People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
 As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.” 
― Sam Levenson

Today and all days  I encourage you to  do one act of random kindness to another. Be inspired  from the quote and story above and if you have a random act of kindness to share  please e-mail it to barbgadway@yahoo.com  and I will  publish it in my next blog. Please include your name and any other info you may want to share. Be a Blessing inspire others with random acts of kindness. Hugs Loves and Blessings God bless y'all , Barb Gadway XOXO <3

Ephesians 4:32

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Be a Blessing: You all are Blessings

Greetings and Salutations!!!!  Today  I want to show my appreciation to all of you who  read/like my blogs. I appreciate you all so much and you are all truly  a blessing to me . {{{{{{HUGS}}}}

  Good friends help you to find important things when you have lost them your smile, your hope, and your courage

Merko Kabod quotes 
I thank you  all so very much for bringing  sunshine to my soul  and warmth to my heart and a smile upon my lips  I love you all bunches > <3

Thank you for being a part of my special day and making it even more special. I am so fortunate to have someone like you in my life

You inspire me so much, I can't even thank you for being such an inspiration to me. You each are flowers  in my garden of friendship  You each are the exotic beautiful bloom that is one-of-a-kind. I thank you each so much for your kindness . <3 Luke 6:31 And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. Today   You each are the blessings and I am so gracious and thankful to have each of you in my life .   Hugs  Loves and many Blessings   XOXO God bless you  , Barb Gadway

THANK YOU EACH AND ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Be a Blessing In everything you do Love One Another

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to 'like' one another. Love governs the will: 'liking' is a matter of sense and sensibility. Nevertheless, if we really love others it will not be too hard to like them also.

If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond.”

― Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island

Blessings and loves! be a blessing  in everything you do love one another.  As the above quote says even if you don't agree with the person  or particularly care for their behaviors...  still love them    and show them kindness and mercy. Remember all the  times we have strayed and our Heavenly Father has forgiven us and still loved us. We must follow his example and love everyone.... Even if we don't agree .

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.

Sai Baba

The  greatest kindness we can show another is love them with positive words and actions. Turn their frown upside down :-(   :-)  and in the process your   heart and soul  will be warm and happy and your heavenly Father will look down upon you and exclaim you did well my child. Today and everyday be a blessing In EVERYTHING you do Love One Another.  Hugs and Loves XOXO <3 God Bless, Barb Gadway

Colossians 3:12 
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Be a Blessing: be a Memory of Sweetness Others will Cherish

“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, or worn. It is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace & gratitude.” - Denis Waitley

Blessings dear ones!  Todays  blessing lesson  will be  words  and photos of inspiration.  Please   share   which ever touches your soul and heart and bless others .  We must   strive each day to   inspire  others with love to    do our part to  heal the world  and    diminish negative thoughts/words for positive ones . As the quote above  emphasizes    we must live each minute of our lives  with love, grace and gratitude. HUGS <3

“Life is short, live it. Love is rare, grab it. Anger is bad, dump it. Fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet, cherish it.” – Unknown

The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.” - Unknown

“We learn something from everyone who passes through our lives.. Some lessons are painful, some are painless.. but, all are priceless.” - Unknown

Today and everyday I urge you to be a blessing... inspire others with your  love... be to others  a valued blessing in their lives.  make  memories  for others sweet and ones they will cherish always. Be a blessing  Be a memory of Sweetness  others will cherish. XOXO MWAH Love y'all bunches...  God bless, Barb Gadway <3

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations