Doing a good deed is really as easy as ABC. If you are nudged to do a deed, just do it! Our school has a committee, yes, the one I love and talk about… The Good Neighbor Committee (GNC)… you know about it… right? Doing unto others that we want done for ourselves. Being a good neighbor to our community and as well as our school community.
Doing good is like Christmas… that is the feeling one gets when you do something just because. You know that feeling, right? Of course you do.
Here’s the thing… today someone came to me and said here is someone who is really struggling. Then they went on to give the details… which includes all sorts of life stuff.
Then they went on to say that it was that person’s b-day and nothing was done. (I was still wondering how GNC could be a part of it)… and then went on to say this could be a GNC thing.
Here’s my thing… it isn’t the kind of thing we do as a committee. We just don’t have to resources to help all the families in need. (How much we wish we did!!!) We do things like make meals, babysit, or take someone out for coffee as people but not necessarily as a committee.
What was frustrating for me with this situation was how come this person could not just DO something on their own? Buy flowers and say “thinking of you or happy birthday?” Get a few people together and go in on a pedicure. Whatever.
What happened is gossip. In the name of praying for others… people tend to gossip. We don’t need details. Just pray. Ask others to pray. Everyone doesn’t need the scoop. In this case, an email was circulated, with too many details. For what?
As Christians, especially those that allow themselves to be called prayer warriors, it is so important to guard a person’s needs as it is to pray for them. I have a hard time with the term prayer warrior. It seems to imply a bigness of some sort. We need to be so careful as we take on the burdens of others that we do not end up hurting in the effort of helping.
Just do unto others… if you were in the same situation. If your birthday was forgotten and you were in the midst of being in a valley… what would you do or want? That would be the right thing to do.
Then do it! Don’t wait for others to do something.