alex.cvitanovic

Pastor Brian’s mes­sage this week­end really inspired me to be much more pur­pose­ful with my gen­eros­ity. An act of gen­eros­ity or a word of encour­age­ment at the right time can lift spir­its and empower another per­son to live the call on their life. 

I’ve decided to set some weekly goals in terms of my encouragement:

1. Buy some­one cof­fee. Sit, talk and encour­age them to pur­sue their dreams.
2. Do not write a cranky email point­ing out someone’s fail­ures (or as we often call them —  “points you could improve on”). Instead, find some­thing they are good at and invest + encour­age them with my words.
3. Buy some­one flow­ers — just to show them they are special.
4. Find some­one I talk to reg­u­larly (Coles check­out worker, petrol sta­tion cashier, work recep­tion­ist) and tell them what an amaz­ing job they are doing. Tell the per­son how much i feel val­ued when i talk with them.
5. Ask some­one close-by (a col­league per­haps) how I can help them when they become stressed.
6. Write at least 2 encour­ag­ing notes/emails to vol­un­teers or other staff.

Now I don’t actu­ally expect to ful­fill all of these each week. Real­is­ti­cally 3 or 4 would be amaz­ing, as my sched­ule changes from week to week. But I will take a pur­pose­ful stride in encour­ag­ing oth­ers — shar­ing the love of God to the peo­ple in my life through my words and actions.

The lyrics of a recent song res­onate in my mind when I con­sider shar­ing His love with my words -

“every breath I breathe, I will breathe for You, Jesus. Every word I speak, i’ll speak for You, Jesus”  - All My Heart (Above the Golden State)

Every breath will be a cho­rus to the Lord, every word will be a poem of love, slowly unfolding.

Tagged as Encouragement, Jesus, love + Categorized as Culture, Revolutionary