A few ways practice generosity this holiday season
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Today I am thrilled to be taking part in a BIG collaboration with bloggers and vloggers from around the country who are all sharing creative ways to give through Random Acts of Kindness this holiday season. This was put together by my friend Sarah at budgetgirl.com. For a full list of participates scroll to the bottom!
Teaching generosity
Generosity is learned behavior. It’s something I’ve learned from my husband and something I hope we are teaching to our kids. It’s not something to save for just one time of the year, hopefully, we as a family will find times to be generous year-round. But the holiday season does lend itself to a myriad of opportunities to give. And many of those are small ways that teach our kids generosity.
This year our family has chosen 9 things, some of them random acts of kindness, some of them organized events, to bring the message of hope and love.
Take a meal to a friend
Take diapers to the women’s medical center
Send cards to VA clinic
Bake goodies for friends
Go caroling to bring cheer to shut-ins
Earn money to buy gifts for each other
Leave bubbles for friends at the library and therapy office
Make toiletry package for the food pantry
Volunteer at the church toy store (a free event to help families in need)
My goal isn’t to be big and splashy, toot our family’s horn, or make us seem like a family of saints (and if you had just seen the trampoline fight I had to break up you’d know we are not!). My goal is to bring simple acts of generosity and random acts of kindness into my family’s day-to-day. It’s about teaching my children to live simply so others can simply live. It’s about sharing the love of Jesus to all on a daily basis. I miss the mark. I miss it so much again and again and again. But I hope that my children see that we are trying to love others.
