Let love overflow…in our kindness to others!!

“God put a million, million doors in the world for His love to walk through. One of those doors is you. I said, God put a million, million doors in the world for His love to walk through. One of those doors is you.” –Jason Gray “With Every Act of Love”

     Ephesians 4:32 says, “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you. “ The command to be loving and kind towards other people is found several different times in the Bible. Love and kindness are obviously very important if God repeats it in His word to us! At times, kindness and love are difficult though and only are possible with God’s help and strength. Have you ever realized that there are opportunities around us every day to show God’s love through us? What if we went out of our way to do acts of kindness to others? I am not talking about a random act of kindness. I am proposing planned and intentional acts of kindness!

     I would like to start a new journey to intentionally spread love and show kindness once a week in a way that is not in my normal routine! I am not sure how long I will do this, but I do know that God has lead me to realize that showing His love through acts of kindness is what He wants me to do right now! These acts of kindness can be simple or complex, ordinary or unique, cost some money or be free and can be done to a loved one, friend or even to a stranger!

     Would you like to join me?! I hope the acts of kindness that I do each week are contagious and that other people will start carrying them out too! The goal is for me to blog at the beginning of each week a new act of kindness and my experience with doing it. I encourage you to then in the coming week also carry out the same act of kindness! You can also comment below each blog and share your own experiences with the acts of kindness.

     Here are some beautiful words that I have read on acts of kindness, “Sometimes it’s the simplest acts of kindness that have the most lasting effects. Sometimes ordinary things impact people in extraordinary ways. Sometimes, caring for others is more important than caring for ourselves. Show God’s love through the little things. Simple deeds can produce larger results than we expect. Simple acts can show the love of God through our actions… If you can form the habit to love others just as you are loved, then you have made one step closer to changing the world for Christ.”

    Lets make going out of our way to show love and kindness a habit each week! Lets make it intentional and not random! Lets make spreading love and showing kindness contagious…man, what would a world full of love and kindness be like?!! So lets start NEXT WEEK!!

p.s. Why wait till my next blog post when you can start sharing kindness RIGHT NOW! Smile, make eye contact and say hello with several people you see over the next couple days (even strangers)! You do not know whose day you will be brightening!!

Let Love Overflow

Hello!    

    Welcome to my first ever blog! I am excited about starting this new adventure of blogging! Before I even set up a blog account, I knew what specifically I was planning to blog on but found it difficult to put my ideas and dreams for future blogs into words, into a title, and to create a specific blog address etc. After much thought, I happy to announce that I named my blog “Let Love Overflow”!

    I recently read the following devotion named “Letting love overflow” (by Nicole Hutchins) and thought it was so beautifully put that I want to share part of it with you, “I see a bucket under a waterfall. The water pours down continuously even after the bucket fills, the bucket overflows, and the water spills onto everything around it. This is the kind of love that Jesus talks about. He wants our lives to be like the bucket and the love to be the water. He wants us to keep pouring out love and letting it spill out onto everyone and everything around us. Even those who we find it hard to love. When we do this, we are showing those who may not know Christ just what his love does in our own lives. We’re showing them that they too can have this abundance of love if they would accept Christ and his gifts.”

     There are several reasons I titled my blog “Let Love Overflow”, and I believe it will fit very nicely with what my passion specifically is to blog on! I will reveal to you the theme of my future blog posts very soon! Are you excited?! I sure am!! Before I go though, a little hint for what the theme and purpose is of my “Let Love Overflow” blog…listen to the song “With Every Act of Love” by Jason Gray posted below and really pay attention to the words of the chorus and bridge!! 

Thank you for taking the time to read my first blog!!

~Ang Nicole