in this together.

without going into too much detail my mom and i had an emotional discussion tonight on needing to serve each other better. during prayer about it i was reminded that we arent here for anything other than exactly that- loving each other by serving. selflessly serving each other in our relationships.

it is so easy to be selfish. it is so easy for me to ask how can THEY serve ME? but thats not what we are to ask. its the opposite. how can I serve THEM? can you imagine if we lived in a world (and when i say world i mean our day to day life) in such a way that we each were wondering and asking how can we serve each other? that would be the nicest way to live. and in reality the way we are supposed to be living.   how incredible is that? that THAT is the way we are supposed to be living. (ephesians 5:21; philipp 2:3-4)

there were two sayings that my mom said as i grew up-- "everything. always. works. out." and "an act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever unappreciated." growing up i watched my parents do these random acts of kindness... in so many different ways. mom tutoring kids, dad eating lunch with family-less, etc. i have loved random acts of kindness (rak) and have always loved hearing stories of people making others days or days being made by these raks. my senior year of high school i founded the random acts of kindness club. this christmas my mom gave me a book of random acts of kindnesses. so after our discussion ironically i had the book out hoping to read through it.

 i also had just read through a book called sex god by rob bell (so good) and it was all about how we are all connected. that we are all one but that we live in a world of the oneness being broken. broken. and that there are few things that god has created to make that oneness in this world that doesnt have it. those things being-- marriage, sex, and relationships. it was saying that in the moments of serving each other we get a sense of what it was meant to be.
one.
together.
united.

in the introduction of the random acts of kindness book it reads- "in a sense, kindness truly is the acting out of our deep and real connection to everyone and everything around us. it is the realization that all of us are in fact-- not just in theory or theology-- in this together."

may we realize we are in this together. selflessly serving each other and seeing others better than ourselves.