LEAVE YOUR FRIENDS AND EVEN STRANGERS SPEECHLESS

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LEAVE YOUR FRIENDS AND EVEN STRANGERS

When was the last time you said something nice about someone and indeed said it to the person themselves?

If so will the people you compliment be left speechless? Most likely, because people don’t compliment each other very often. They would rather wait until a person is dead and then stand around at the cemetery saying what a great person they were.

SO…Dare to be different. Dare, this very day, to do nothing more than walk up to a friend and say, “Thank you.”

I’m serious. Look around right now, and pick out someone you’ve known, loved and appreciated for years and walk up to them and say, “Thank you, Louis; Thank you, Bruce; Thank you, Jean; Thank you, Jane….”

Think how wonderful it will be to have such words of love and appreciation echoing all around. And just don’t think about it – lovingly, considerately, out-goingly DO IT!

And oh yes…name why…”For being such a good friend” “For setting such a good example for me to live by” “For the good deeds I know you do all the time”…etc. be original, creative…it shouldn’t be that hard…for certainly you can think of something to think everyone and anyone at least once.

When you do it I will say thank you for the richness of these two little words to someone’s life. Thank you…thank you…thank you…

You think it’s a good idea but you would be too embarrassed. Too embarrassed to say something nice? Are you too embarrassed to sometimes say something mean? To speak out in anger? Why then, is it so hard to be nice?

Tomorrow…that’s right…if you have put it off… say something nice about some-one to that someone.

“Thank you, Joe.” And Joe may fall of his chair.

“I appreciate that, Mary.” And Mary may be dumbfounded.

But I can guarantee, even if you don’t explain why you said something nice, whoever received your praise will feel good all the rest of the day because you made it obvious they have been a good and positive influence in your life.

I know that rude, crude and forgetful are in, but we are Christians.

Be nice, even if you have built up a reputation for being grumpy. Smile, even when you don’t feel like it.

We are supposed to be more loving, more considerate, more forgiving with heavenly goals dancing in our heads. We are expected to be able to say thank you with more ease.

Dare to be different. Dare to let angel-thoughts run wild along the avenues of your soul.

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