Passing it on

Hi there.
I don't know about you, but sometimes there are days when everything is just that little bit extra special.
The sun is out and there's not a cloud in the sky.
Then there's just that day when people are kind just because they feel like it.
I've been at home so I haven't been working, so the day finally came when I just had to push myself out the door, and do something.
So I went into town, and I went to the library, which is my 3rd place.
I'll get onto these places, soon.
I managed to loose my library card probably for the 20th time and I've always found it, but this time I hadn't and I checked all my 14 hand bags, and my coat pockets, even my car 5 times it was completely and well entirely lost.
So I went into the library to get another one, and was prepared to pay the $5 charge fee.
But the kind person, just gave me a free one, and done away with the fee.
All she wanted me to do was to pay it forward, to be kind to someone else.
So if you're not a library person, can you pay it forward and read some books!!
It doesn't need to be anything inspiring, or special, just get into the habit of reading.
Then when you get reading you'll get writing and that's always fun.
So lets get onto the 3rd place.
And where do you go when you want to hear from God.
Does it at times feel like you're walk with God has gone stale?
Perhaps you just pray in an empty room, with nothing around you, wondering if you're going completely mad.
Jesus says, to pray in the spirit,   we know that we are doubly blessed because when we don't see him, we know that he is there, we are doubled blessed because we pray in the spirit of God, and when we pray and don't see him, we already receive that blessing.
Perhaps you're finding it hard to hear from God, because you are finding it hard to calm down.
There are so many books, out there on how to hear from God, and what his plan for you life is.
And only he knows he knows what you're going through and he is the only one that actually says to you, ''I know exactly how you're life is like right now.''
The next one is, not believing the lies that have been said, told to you.
These lies are obviously not from God, God never lies or makes you're life harder.
He is there to guide you, and to give you a mind of soundness and of hope.
The next thing I want to tell you, is care for the ones that you love, don't worry about going around trying to fix everything.
Because you can't fix everything,  if it's your parents care for them, if you're by  yourself care for yourself treat yourself a bit, if you're a single person, love yourself like Christ loves the church.
If your'e a husband love your wife, if you're not the person you should be, come back to God most importantly, and come back to the person that you've hurt or if you can't to that, ask for forgiveness. You simply can't go on deceiving yourself if you know what you are doing is wrong.
We need to pass on good things, to our society,  we need to stand and be counted for things that aren't helping us.
So that's where the 3rd place comes in, if you think about your work, and your life style,  and your home, where do you go to hear from God?
This is important, because if we cram everything in, and we struggle with filling our lives with ''Works and deeds and a bit of faith.'' we will feel like we're blocked from hearing from God.
The key is, not to be over to committed, no matter if people come to you, as a last resort, or simply because we're just so good at our jobs, only you can do it properly, what do we end up doing?
Doing it, and doing it because the person has asked us to, and we haven't even prayed about it, because well we've been the person to the rescue.
We need to get God's permission, to do it, now  yes it might be doing that weird, random act of kindness, and it might not make sense with you, but sometimes when you are in need to you need to take people kindness, and just take it as it is.
You've probably heard, ''God loves a cheerful giver.'' and right now, it might be because of the new church that is building, or that student group, no matter what is is, we should be careful how we say it because we shouldn't use it as fundraising tool, to get more money, and sadly there are churches using that verse to do just that.
You know, if you can't give money to and organization, that's ok, or if you have supported them, in the past and can't give funds that's alright as well, because we know that God is for us and not against us.
We need to be careful where we put our money as well,  no matter if it's those people around Christmas time grabbing your bank account details, and making sure you bend over backwards in giving.
I once had this happen to me, infact the guy also got my good friend as well,  and he said ''Now your Christians need to stand up and give as much as you can, because a lot of you aren't'' 2 days later I got a  phone call from the organization, wanting feedback, and I said that I felt pushed into giving them because of the Christian statement,  we shouldn't pressure anyone like that to give to us or force our way into peoples lives to become Christians.
We should be as wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Clearly this person didn't know.
He probably had a goal of people to reach to get paid, so I don't feel sorry for him, but if you can't give that's ok.
And you don't have to be the next ''Bill Gates'' to give money either, it might be through your time, through helping others and other organizations, with what you have.
It's only  because we're so money focused that we are told to give, but it's also in the bible, so if you can't give 10% of your income, it's ok, give what you have.
Infact, the widow in the bible didn't have 10% of her money, she only had 2 small coins, and I wonder what happened that next day, we don't know, I wonder what God did on that day, when Jesus saw here in the temple.
She gave all that she had to live on.
She passed it forward.
Well I better let you go.
Take care
Chloe