Colossians Day

"My purpose is that they may be encouraged in heart and united in love, so that they may have the full riches of complete understanding, in order that they may know the mystery of God, namely, Christ."  Colossians 2:2

An idea has been germinating in my mind for a while.  I'm always wishing that we had more time to do things to encourage and help other people, but I never seem to be able to carve the time out of our daily lives.  It finally hit me that, as a homeschooling mother, especially one who schools year round, I have the ability to make helping others a priority in our lives.  Since our family is still memoring Colossians, I decided to set aside one day each week as a Colossians 2:2 day while we are in here in Honiara this time.  This week, our experiment was a big success! 

Benjamin started by making a banana oat cake for Aaron to take to SITAG's afternoon staff meeting, while Sarah began by crocheting her first baby hat for "Caps for Good".  (After we checked the website, we learned that the deadline passed in February, but Sarah is planning to donate the caps to the many newborns we anticipate in Marulaon.  You ought to see the way those mamas bundle those babies!) 

Olivia wrote a snail mail letter, then she mixed up some peanut butter cookies to share with the SIBTLP workshop participants and the post office workers as a thank you.  Then Sarah shifted to making a double batch of banana bread to share with some of our SITAG colleagues, and Benjamin baked some chocolate chip cookies to send to one of the village teams. 

We finished up with another double batch of of banana bread (with nuts this time), so we would have a little more to share.  It was sooo fun to have the morning set aside to intentionally do those things that I always want to do, but seem to slip through the cracks of my day.  We're already planning for next week's Colossians 2:2 day and looking for the people we can encourage!