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“Freely ye have received, freely give.”
gavvet (77) in lighttheworld • yesterday
The first of 25 ways to #LightTheWorld in 25 days leading up Christmas.
Instead of waiting to receive or giving only on Christmas lets find ways to give to others now and always.
The #LightTheWorld campaign website makes the following suggestions for Day 1
Jesus made it clear that everything we have is a gift freely given from God. We should be grateful for all that we have and be willing to give just as freely to others.
WAYS YOU CAN GIVE FREELY
What can you sacrifice today to make someone else’s life better?
Put down the electronics and spend some quality time with family or a friend.
Would someone less fortunate appreciate something you have?
Make an anonymous donation to someone who's struggling to make ends meet.
How can you show your gratitude to someone who has positively affected you?
Send the person a thoughtful thank-you card acknowledging the ways he or she has helped you.
These are the suggestions the site gives to help prompt us to a little introspection and inspiration around how we could reach out to those around us. I am sure there are thousands of ways we could reach out.
Each of us live in our own set of circumstances surrounded by those with their own set of needs.
Take a little time to think over who you could help out and in what way.
In the comments please don't share with us necessarily what you did, but how it made you feel.
@hanshotfirst will be doing tomorrow's challenge from more secular, less religious perspective to demonstrate how all can participate no mater what their religions persuasion or lack thereof.
Both of these will serve as an example and promotion of how to post regarding the day's challenge. The 3rd day or Sunday's post will be open to the community to post to promote or share your take on the day's video and challenge.
I will be monitoring the #lighttheworld hashtag and will be throwing all spare voting power in that direction, to comments and posts.
If you decide to participate using your own top level post, please just insert the days video, theme and link, as I have done. The rest is up to you and lets see how creative and positive a contribution we can all make.
I haven't devised a formula for exactly how I will be voting yet, would like to get a good look at the contributions first.
Besides lots of smaller votes, we may decide to vote up the best contribution to the hashtag for Day 3. Then the winner of that day would be requested to select the winning post in the hashtag on Day 6 when the cycle returns to the community contribution.
I will however be monitoring and voting within the tag on all days, not just 3, 6, 9, 11 etc.