Make sure you don't get wrapped up in materialism.
Check in on someone who may need encouragement.
Open your eyes to people around you--they live in a world separate from yours, you never know what difficulties they are going through...
Spend time being thankful.
Above all: Don't be self-centered. Focus. Remember what blessings you have because of our Lord.
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Good advice, I'm just never sure how to stop being self-centered... even my desire to be selfless appears selfish to me. Other lives surrounding us, yet miles away as we rush through life surrounded by our barriers of "my needs" and "my busyness" ...at least that's how my life always seems. Any advice on the how-to side of all of this?
A little over a year ago a new child started riding our bus route to church... knee-jerk reaction to this 11yo male was dislike because he was treating one of the other children very poorly. I care for this other child, a 10yo female who has many problems. Instantly I disliked a child because of the attack I felt was being giving to another child. Over the past year I've seen much more of this young boy, my heart breaks for him now too, because I paused, re-evaluated the situation and realized, he needed love too. There's always a bigger picture, sometimes we just aren't looking hard enough to see it.
And sometimes we just can't see it. But it still behooves us, as followers of the One Who Can See It, to trust that there is a bigger picture: that every villain is a broken soul in need of grace (and, to remember, we have been that villain to someone, at some time, even if that someone was our own self). My head is too often in the sand... makes for easier slacking. But it makes for a lousy Christianity.
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