Generosity: Become Like Little Children
Saturday, January 6, 2007
I mentioned that we are exploring generosity at The Freeway for the month of January. Two stories of our children leading the way:
01. I posted just before Christmas about our son, Lucas, and his "pennies for the poor" campaign.
02. This week, Krista posted a story on her blog about her 4 year old daughter, Madison, giving away her toys:
Read the whole story here.
We have a lot to learn from our kids.
01. I posted just before Christmas about our son, Lucas, and his "pennies for the poor" campaign.
02. This week, Krista posted a story on her blog about her 4 year old daughter, Madison, giving away her toys:
So, I said to Madi that I wanted her to go through her toys and make two piles. One to keep and one to give away to other kids who don't have a lot of toys and would like some. I told her I was going downstairs and would come back up in a minute to check on her.
I could hear her hollering "mom! mom! come and look!"
Oh no. What did she do?
I was shocked that what it was she wanted to show me was that the bigger pile was for toys to give away. She was so proud of herself. There were some toys in there I had a hard time to give away (they're so cute, or fairly new, or in good shape, or expensive, or.....) - but she was generously giving away her best.
Read the whole story here.
We have a lot to learn from our kids.
Labels: justice, the freeway
5:48 AM
We sure do!
A couple who we meet regularly has had a tough fall. His sister died in October leaving husband and two children, and her grandfather died the day after they had the funeral... When we prayed for then, my youngest (4 YO) wanted us to send them her favourie teddy. We told her that they would be happy just to get a drawing or something, but she looked at us a if we didn´t understand. Then she explained to us that her teddy was ver good at comforting, and that they needed it more then she did now. We sent them the teddy.