Loving the unexpected

Having found a moment to sit and just check the news and whatnot, I stumbled onto this blog: Loving the unexpected  It's hosted by a girl in the States, who has started this project she calls loving the unexpected. What she does (and encourage the rest of the world to do), is to do a random act of kindness each day. Say, holding up the door for someone, help someone, leave a note of encouragement for anyone to find and so on.

Anyone seen the movie "Pay it Forward" ?  This wee boy gets an assignment in class to change the world  and comes up with the idea of paying it forward. i.e you do something big for three people, but instead of paying you back, they pay it FORWARD to three other people, who in their turn pays it forward to three other people. Pretty soon you have a whole lot of  people doing a whole lot of good for a whole lot of people. This blog is similar to that, or rather, simply the result of loving your neighbour as yourself -teat others as you would like to be treated.

God is love, we are created in his image; they shall know you by your love for one another; we love because he first love us - all of these quotes have tumbled about in my head recently as has Micah 6:8:

He has told you, O man, what is good;

   and what does the LORD require of you

but to do justice, and to love kindness,

   and to walk humbly with your God?

Come to think about it; there's a worship song I like about all this. check it out:
Andy Bromley -Love Mercy


Isn't it amazing how things come together?? So, my challenge, along with lovingtheunexpected (and Jesus, incidentally) to you all today is to aim to do something loving to a stranger -even a smile! A smile can make all the difference!

with love,
The Swede Turned Turnip