More bible inspiration - On kindness

[jennifer_bloom]

The bible says God rewards the charitable with prosperity.

On my dads side, 19 years ago, my cousin had the biggest humanitarian mindset, and would risk her life to visit homeless people in dangerous neighbourhoods to buy them food and her university was ranked number 8 in the world and she met Ivanka Trump at a sorority party while studying there and they were almost friends.

I was less generous than my cousin, but I would spend a few hours a week on fundraisers and volunteer at the food bank a few times a year and volunteered once or twice with disabled people, and my school was ranked number 20 in the world at the time I finished high school.

My other cousin has always been too stingy even to buy his dad a cup of coffee from Tim Hortons and despite incredible social intelligence, he went to one of the lowest ranked universities in the entire country and he worked super hard in school.

The bible teaches that the way to succeed is to pursue humanitarian causes and moral kindness under the patience and discretion of secrecy and privacy and you don’t have to be smart enough for medical school to be a humanitarian, my grandma loved her family and is one of the biggest humanitarians I’ve ever met towards her grand kids and she never did a single hour of volunteer work.

[Anonymous]

Charitable and humanitarian work looks good on university applications. I did some Charitable work in India, we built them a church with an actual toilet. We also built school and taught kids in Africa.
I often wonder if it wouldn't have been better to rather than 40 kids raising thousands each to fly out to the 3rd world to instead just pay locals to build it themselves.

[greenice27]

John
21:1

After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and on this wise shewed he himself.
21:2

There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas called Didymus, and Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two other of his disciples.
21:3

Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing.
21:4

But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
21:5

Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
21:6

And he said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes.
21:7

Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked,) and did cast himself into the sea.
21:8

And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.
21:9

As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
21:10

Jesus saith unto them, Bring of the fish which ye have now caught.
21:11

Simon Peter went up, and drew the net to land full of great fishes, an hundred and fifty and three: and for all there were so many, yet was not the net broken.
21:12

Jesus saith unto them, Come and dine. And none of the disciples durst ask him, Who art thou? knowing that it was the Lord.
21:13

Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.
21:14

This is now the third time that Jesus shewed himself to his disciples, after that he was risen from the dead.

[Massageman]

Matt 25:40.

Great thoughts. I think I would have liked your grandma.

I pick-up surplus bagels at a Christian bagel shop in the area Friday nights, and bring them to our weekly Saturday morning church food pantry. Usually 20-30 dozen of them! We get two shipments of foods in every Saturday morning, make up about 50 boxes of staple foods, fresh veggies/fruit, a couple of treats, fresh prepped foods, some sort of household goods (cleaner, soaps, toothpaste, TP)- a couple of meats, a milk/juice choice (as long as they last), a bag of bread (4-6 loaves/pkgs of buns), plus a bakery item (cookies, cake, brownies, etc. ). We live on a "tight-knit" block and tend to help each other a lot. We just got some spanakopita from a Greek neighbor that gets greens, leeks and sesame-seed bread from the pantry: what goes around comes around.