Momentous Missionfield

Sharing a few recent moments of kindness today,

either as a witness or recipient.

On the day before Christmas I popped in at a neighbour,

to find his children nursing a rooster back to health in their kitchen

after he missed the coop one frigid night

and suffered frost-bite!

He was enjoying a breakfast of blueberries,

(eaten as soon as they landed) and cheerios!

A text from a friend...

A gift from a friend...

Eggs dropped off from Lucy's husband

(keeping her egg-gifting tradition alive!)

just to name a few as well as many thoughtful texts and cards

over the Christmas Season...

Thank-you💓🙏

Kindness is not a rare opportunity

to make a grand or glamorous gesture of generosity.

Rather, kindness grants countless and daily invitations

to love our neighbours as ourselves! 

Whether literally or figuratively, let's give someone a boost today! 🙏💝

Not always in some foreign place

Do mission fields implore

No! often mercy states its case

Outside our very door

Therefore to whom it may concern

Regarding love's reply

We ought to resolve not to turn

A deaf ear or blind eye

And though we cannot all help all

We all can help someone

For no kindness is ever small

The moment it is done

~Janet Martin

John 13:34-35
A new commandment I give you: 

Love one another.

 As I have loved you, so you also must love one another.

  By this everyone will know that you are My disciples,

 if you love one another.”

Romans 15:1-2
We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak

 and not to please ourselves. 

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

1 John 3:16-18
By this we know what love is: 

Jesus laid down His life for us, 

and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. 

 If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need,

 but withholds his compassion from him, 

how can the love of God abide in him? 

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, 

but in action and truth.

Philippians 2:3-4
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, 

but in humility consider others more important than yourselves. 

 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, 

but also to the interests of others.