The Kingdom Come journey has begun! I've been so excited for this to begin, consider my spiritual dry patch over! I have group with my family on Tuesdays and my small group on Thursdays and I love it!
"Jesus replied, 'The kingdom of God does not come with you careful observation, nor will people say, 'here it is,' or 'there it is' because the kingdom of God is within you." Luke 17: 20-21
Week one is all about love and putting Christ's love into action. We defined love as ascribing worth to another person, often at a cost to yourself. We were given challenge cards and had to complete them through the week. I had two challenges which were to pay someone a compliment and to write a love letter. I felt like I paid compliments to people pretty regularly so actually being given that as a challenge really only ended up making me over think giving compliments because then I thought it wasn't genuine and I was only doing it because I had a card that said I should. If only every challenge card available came that naturally.
So for my second challenge card I decided to write a letter to my mom. It's something that I've thought about doing for a really long time. When I went to New Orleans they had encouraged us to write a letter to someone that encouraged us or helped us get to New Orleans. I thought about doing it then but never did. It seems impossible to put on paper what my mom means to me. How much I appreciate her, but I did my best. Loved this challenge!
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These acts seem really small but imagine if all of us found little ways to bless others everyday, or if we thought of something new we could do to ascribe worth to one person each week. That sounds a little like God's kingdom on Earth.
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