Day Twelve
Today's Scripture
Numbers 23:15-19 - The Messianic Promise
Today's Activity - Create a Loving Deeds Jar
Write a variety of gifts of love on slips
of paper and place them in a jar. If there is more than one
person, or if ages and abilities vary, color-code the actions
so that they are appropriate for different individuals. A
slip is selected every morning and the action carried out
sometime during the day.
Some ideas are:
- Make special place cards for dinner.
- Pray for someone you know is sick.
- Invite someone over for dinner.
- Read to someone younger or older.
- Write a letter to someone you havenât
written to in a long time.
- Offer to prepare the next meal (and do
it).
- Spend an hour with someone doing a special
activity of their choice.
- Fix someone a cup of coffee or tea.
- Make someone elseâs bed.
- Telephone someone you havenât spoken
to in a long time.
- Fill a warm bath for Mother.
- Tell everyone in your family you love
them & why.
- Polish Father's shoes
These acts of kindness have nothing to do
with money or store gifts; instead they are ways of expressing
love to your family members in tangible ways. Each time someone
in the family does a kind or thoughtful deed, he gets to place
a bit of straw in a manger. Ideally, by Christmas Eve, Baby
Jesus (a doll wrapped in swaddling blanket) has a manger full
of straw to sleep on.
Today's Song
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
A Book Idea for Today
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