What a Woman #Three

Have you felt a little like me these past, oh I don't know, 22 years?


You look at the world, watch the news, hear stories, travel overseas and feel a little overwhelmed by the needs that are out there. You desperately want to do something to help and praying just doesn't seem like enough. 


So you....sponsor a child, give to mission offerings at church, fill a Christmas shoebox, volunteer at your local op shop, do a 'Walk for......', run a jewellery sale, support individual families who are working overseas for God, sign up as a member at your local Christian radio station, buy school supplies for children in Africa, collect underwear to donate to needy families overseas, get sponsors for the 40 hour famine, run kids' holiday cooking classes to raise money to rescue children in Asia from the sex trade, patch a quilt to give to someone who has just lost everything, donate your old towels to the SES for flood clean-up use, teach your children the importance of giving to and caring for others, make a meal for someone in need, mow the lawn for an elderly neighbour, give a day's wages every month to a mission organisation, make and sell biscuits to raise a bit of extra money to give, purchase rabbits and chickens for people overseas at Christmas time, do a mission trip to PNG, Vanuatu, Africa, Thailand, Chile, collect the silver coins in your home to give to a favourite cause, write a letter to someone in prison.....etc.......


Hey...if you've ever done anything like those things just mentioned...you are being the woman of excellence described in Proverbs 31...She opens her arms to the poor and extends her hands to the needy. (v20) Well done you! But let's keep going....


Right now, with a recent flood and cyclone causing mass damage just down the road, there's never been a better opportunity to give and to help....to open arms and extend hands. But I get a bit stuck on how best to do that.....so please, comment or email me with great ideas.


So girls, women, let's keep on keeping on with looking for opportunities to be generous and kind. They certainly aren't hiding themselves right now. And let's be creative, dig deep and help others, as God's ambassadors. 


We bless others when we help them. We bless ourselves when we give and we share. We bless God too. Now that's a great feeling!