Be a Blessing: Start Today & Help the Homeless in Your Vicinity

Blessings today I am going to post something a wee bit different ... I am going to post    quotes    about helping others in hopes to bless you to begin today with helping the homeless.... start small... and build up to bigger and bigger ways of helping the homeless... check out the blog on making blessing bags to keep in your car to distribute   when you encounter the  homeless on the streets and in the neighborhood.http://www.helpinghandsforthehomeless.com/blog/2013/06/10/Blessing-Bags-.aspx Start today  and     help the homeless in your vicinity. It will bless your soul .  Enjoy the quotes and such  and I hope 1 inspires  you  to  start helping today . :-) Helping quotes demonstrate how reaching out to others in a way that serves them can bring joy and meaning into our lives. Discovering our own special way of helping or being ‘of service’ to others Serving others helps strengthen your creativity by providing low-risk avenues of self-expression while making a difference in the lives of others. The joy of giving, the joy of creating, and the joy of helping come from service. Salli Rasberry All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others. Danny Thomas Life to too short not to create, not to love, and not to lend a helping hand to our brothers and sisters. Eric Maisel   You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. Ruth Smeltzer Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. Norman B. Rice

Be a blessing Help Others Up But Let Them Grow too

Bright Blessing to all!!!!! Hope your day is beginning and going fantastically. :-) Todays Blessing lesson stems from a real life experience for me;....  We need to help people  everyday  but also if  what they need help with.. we have to   help them by  letting them handle the achievement themselves but be there  if they need our guidance.   How many of us  have had the experience   of enduring a sibling  that  didnt have to do what we had to do  because  they were favored by the parents... :-(  this is really sad and  not at all good for the  one that is the favorite ... how can that one  really in  just words grow up  if the parent  doesnt let them do so.   Sometimes the best kind of love and assistance is  loving them enough to let them do it... let them grow...  but if it ever gets to be too much for them... always be there  for them.  This can be a lesson to all of us who are parents  really... never favor  one over the other so much that the one can never do any wrong  and the  other seems never to do any right. As parents... we must be like our Father in heaven... we are always there  but    let   the child   try to do the task themself.  My personal reason for this  blog today is I am 1 of 2  children... I have a sibling 6 years older than me.... he was  coddled   so much he  does not know how to even use the stove to cook himself something.. As an adult... how can this help him and them especially if God forbid the parents pass on.... :-( Teach your children and others to love and treat others all the same be it siblings   or   their children... let them know when you see they arent  in a gentle manner of course. Out of respect  I take care of my parents and  now my sibling due to my parents  . Today I urge you and beg of you   Be a Blessing  by helping others to help themselves... help them grow ... strengthen their character ... their faith... just simply themselves  by letting them try ..........   And  let them know it may seem like your being tough in a way  but   its because you love them so much .. you want to see them  simply grow up enough that they fend for themselves in the real world  and other than relying on God to get them through the day ... they really don't have to rely on anyone else but themselves... THEY   CAN   DO    IT    :-)  woo hoo and let them know when they accomplish the task how proud you are of them.  God bless you all and much much love  MWAH...... <3  , Barb Gadway

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.
Richard M. DeVos 

Philippians 2:4 - 

do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

Be a Blessing: Embrace Compassion and Share it

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” 
― Albert Einstein

Blessings!  I hope your day/afternoon/evening is just going beautifully. I hope it is bringing you joy... love.... and peace within yourself. Smile my dear ones  God loves you and so do I. <3 Dear Albert Einstein hit the nose right on the head so to speak.. we must each day free ourselves  by showing love and compassion to others... enjoy in the beauty of all people... all creatures.... great or small..... and nature itself... what a wonderful masterpiece of miracles nature is and how blessed we are to  have it given to us as a gift. Sometimes when the day isnt going according to plan.. go out side the pity me circle... get out and about or even in your own household... go up to another and bless them with the compassion of a kind word or simple gesture.. by embracing compassion and giving it to others ... you also bless yourself.. Feel the warmth within your soul and heart... Be a Blessing: Embrace Compassion  and share it . HUGS  LOVES and BLESSINGS...... XOXO  God bless, Barb Gadway <3

Proverbs 19:17

He who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, And He will repay him for his good deed.

May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.” 
― Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Vegan's Daily Companion: 365 Days of Inspiration for Cooking, Eating, and Living Compassionately

Be a Blessing Encourage your Beauty Within

Good day  and many Blessings ... May today be bright and filled with sunshine and happiness for each of you... To be a blessing to someone you must first look within yourself  and find your beauty of goodness... kindness... genuine love.  When you reach that beauty within it will  flow outward from you .. Too many people  look at what they assume is beauty  on the outside of the beauty... but  what really makes a person beautiful is their generous kind soul... true  honest  to goodness beauty is within each of us if we allow it to be. The most beautiful people in the world   will never win a beauty contest that  is worldly and  emphasizes on outward only... the most beautiful  will win the ultimate  contest so to speak because they radiate God's love to others... their contest will be won  in Heaven and their eternal reward . This is genuine  honest beauty.... Be a blessing  encourage your beauty within  and always show love to others. God bless, Barb Gadway  XOXOX  <3  Loves and Hugs 

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.” 
― Markus Zusak, I am the Messenger
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” 
― Sophia Loren

1 Peter 3:3-4 ESV / 

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious

Song of Solomon 2:1 ESV / 

I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.

Be a Blessing Sprout... Grow.... Move forward

Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile soil. 



The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into the soil beneath me, and thrust my sprouts through the earth's crust above me ... I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the arrival of spring ... I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!" 



And so she grew...


The second seed said, "Hmmmm. If I send my roots into the ground below, I don't know what I will encounter in the dark. If I push my way through the hard soil above me I may damage my delicate sprouts ... what if I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it is much better for me to wait until it is safe." 



And so she waited...


A yard hen scratching around in the early spring ground for food found the waiting seed and promptly ate it
http://www.citehr.com/333369-short-story-power-positive-attitude.html

Bright Blessings all!  I wish you the top of the morning/afternoon/evening wherever you reside.The blessing lesson for today  don't be the second seed and not move forward... be like the first seed  sprout your positive attitude thoughts and actions... do little acts of kindness each day  and your positive self will grow and develop and encase your surrounding world  with smiles... happiness... positivity  and keep it moving forward... start small with one act of kindness each day and  then add more little by little.Little by little my dear friends  we CAN and WILL  erase the negative thoughts  from ourselves and others  with more positive ones.  Be a blessing  sprout... grow.... Move Forward  .  MWAH and much love to each and all of you. many many {{{{{HUGS}}}} God bless, Barb Gadway  <3

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” 
― Lao Tzu

1 Peter 4:8 
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Be a Blessing: Respect Another's Differences

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.Bright Blessings  for a wonderful day filled with happiness  for each of you. {{{{HUGS}}}}

Todays Blessing... Respect another's differences... this is a biggie for me... I see way too many on social media sites   that  don't agree with anothers opinion and they retaliate  verbally which winds causing hurt feelings in the  other person. The world is made up of so many different  remarkable people   love them for them.... you don't have to agree with them but respect them for being them just as you would like them to respect you for who you are.Differences  in todays blessing doesnt just mean race.. religion... or  political affiliation.. it also means their  beliefs  that make them... simply who they are. Even a couple going into a long term  relationship don't always  agree with each other 100% but they love and care for that persons  differences and respect  them for who they are  just as much as they do when the other party is in total  agreement with your beliefs and philosophies.Today I urge you all to Be a Blessing... respect another  who has differences than you treat them with love and kindness not in retaliation to try to prove your point. One step by one step by doing this we can make the social media sites a more positive experience for all and little by little it will influence the world and others to be  more positive too, R-E-S-P-E-C-T  6 letters that come together  to mean a BIG  thing for todays world  ... respect one another  even if they differ from you. God bless you, I love you all  Barb Gadway <3

How would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.” 
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

Philippians 2:3 (KJV) Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 

Be a Blessing: Share the Love.. Be a positive Influence

Bright Blessings to all! Today I am  posting   some fave   quotes and  pictures on  people being a blessing to others.  I hope and pray one of these  quotes...etc.. will  warm your heart  and bless your soul. Please feel free to  share   and  use these quotes   in your daily life in  the  goal to bless one person atleast per day  . Enjoy the quotes my dear beloved friends. If you have any personal stories  or quotes etc.. on being a blessing   feel free to e-mail me at barbgadway@yahoo.com or barbgadway@live.com  and I will  put them in a blog   don't forget your name  so people will know  who  you are :-)   So today be a blessing Share the love by Being a Positive Influence.  Hugs loves and Blessings  XOXO God bless you all , Barb Gadway <3

“No act of kindness is too small. The gift of kindness may start as a small ripple that over time can turn into a tidal wave affecting the lives of many.”

Kevin Heath - Ceo More4kids
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.”

Norman B. Rice (born 1943);
Former Mayor Of Seattle, Washington
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”

William Penn (1644-1718);
Founder Of Pennsylvania, United States

Proverbs 22:9 -Being Generous

He who is generous will be blessed, For he gives some of his food to the poor

John 15:12 - More about Love

"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you

Luke 6:38 - Rewards for Giving

"Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they will pour into your lap. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."