Blessings in Exchange

I've been trying to do random acts of kindness lately. I want to bless others with my random acts of kindness, but so far it hasn't just been blessing others.

Today, our neighbor was trying to mow with her two year old on her hip. Her husband wasn't home from work yet, and since she had no one else to watch her daughter, she had to mow with her. Obviously, this wasn't easy looking. I volunteered to watch her daughter in their fenced in backyard while she mowed the front yard. I had limited time to clean my room before some guests came, but I knew it was much more important for me to bless someone else than to have a perfectly clean room. The little girl instantly latched onto me, and I spent the next hour playing peek-a-boo, teaching how to blow dandelions, smelling flowers, and dancing with a two year old. Throughout the hour, I smiled more than I had all day and truly delighted in being in the presence of a little one of God's. I started off trying to bless someone, but God had a different plan. Instead, He decided to make me the person who was the most blessed. Random acts of kindness can definitely bless people, but I’ve found that it also blesses the person who does it.

Kayla Joy

Heart Shaped Reminders

I sat outside, watching the insects flutter by and the flowers bloom around me. While I watched a bird repeatedly pick up a worm and drop it, I felt discouraged, but I wasn't even sure why. And that's when I saw it. A beautiful, white flower with tiny, delicate individual flowers forming a shape around it. A shape of a heart.

Things are constantly changing in this world, but God's love never will. And He has amazing ways of reminding us of His love once we've forgotten how amazing it is. Don't take His love for granted!

Kayla Joy

Boldness

I scribbled three words down on a piece of paper, "Encouraging, boldness, and prayer". I decided that I really needed to work on all three, and I promised God I'd try to do better with them. Little did I know, God had decided to let me work on one faster than I was expecting!

Fast forward a week: I'm asked to present at a Christian club at my school. I'm in an online school, so I wouldn't actually see the other students--I'd simply talk on the mic and read out loud my presentation. The group wasn't that large, around 20 people, but I was terrified!

I can't be bold by myself--I wouldn't have it in me. Without God, I definitely wouldn't have been bold enough to present. Thankfully, I wasn't without God. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, "For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline." When you realize that you can't do something on your own, remember that you're not on your own.


Kayla Joy

More Than You can Handle?

"God doesn't give you more than you can handle."

Where in the Bible does it say that? We've all heard that phrase before, but it's actually not Biblical based. Because let's admit it--we've all been at a place where we've told God, "I just can't handle this anymore."

Sometimes God gives us more than we can handle on purpose. Why? So that we realize we can't handle it, and realize that we need some One greater to, because we surely don't have it in us. Instead, the saying should be switched to, "God doesn't give you more than He can handle."

Kayla Joy

P.S. Sorry for the few blog posts! I've still been trying to figure out the new format!