Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Do The Small Things

 
• Being grateful for another morning by being cheerful on the outside even though you might be in physical pain on the inside.
• Writing a little note of encouragement, congratulations, appreciation, sympathy or condolence to someone needing a little uplift.
• A visit to a sick friend--but don't stay too long.
• A telephone call to a lonesome friend.
• Give a gift to someone.
• Have a kind and warm greeting for a little child or an elderly person.
• Stop and enjoy the flowers.
• Get some little thing done that you have been putting off.
• Admit a mistake to yourself and resolve not to make it again.
• Show kindness to animals.
• Move close to your family.
• Explore the satisfaction of courtesy.
• Be able to go to sleep at the end of the day with the feeling that you have been a more considerate person today than you were yesterday.
All these add to the sweetness and smoothness of life. They bring us to pleasant communion with others, nurture friendships, and prevent the interference of those petty sophistications and elaborate etiquettes that keep us apart from others.
Though small, they create a beneficent radiation which enriches us and contributes to our own ennoblement. They enhance a tender inclination for the pleasantness that comes with the satisfaction of having done good. They strengthen the soul. They make a good day because they make us better persons.
 
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:

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