Do Unto Others

I enjoy watching the televison program ABC's Extreme Home

Makeover. In case you have never watched it, it is a show

that helps a family who usually is in great need of a new

home and usually has a family member with some kind

of medical condition. Sometimes they have lost a parent

or have a sick child. The community rallies around them

and in one weeks time, with the help of the Extreme Home

Makeover team, they tear down their house, rebuild a new

and improved one and surprise the family with it after

sending them on a vacation for the week. It is a show that is

filled with love, giving, sacrifice and the wonderful rewards

of giving to someone else.

There are times, with three autistic boys, that I can sit down

to watch feeling tired, discouraged and a little sorry for

myself. I always end up being reminded that so many people

have it worse than me. And the best part is seeing what

wonderful results can come from showing some love to

another person.

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one

another; By this all will know that you are My disciples,

if you have love for one another." John 13:34-35

"Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed

down, shaken together, and running over will be put in to

your bosom. For with the same measure that you use,

it will be measured back to you." Luke 6:38

Isn't that last line interesting? So, if we are feeling a lack of

love, peace, kindness, or understanding maybe we need

to dish it out to others in a bigger measure!