Raising Unselfish Children in a Self-Absorbed World by Jill Rigby

Author:Jill Rigby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2008-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

If you’re intimidated by the prospect of having people in your home, I want to encourage you not to be. It’s not the size or décor of a home that makes it special, but the love that fills it. Hospitality isn’t just entertaining others, it’s loving others. And it’s the love that’s much more important.

Dear children,

let us not love with words or tongue

but with actions and in truth.

1 J OHN 3:18

One final way you can help your kids grow up to become empathetic adults is by involving them in acts of compassion.

Involve Your Children in Acts of Compassion

Wesley Willis, vice president of Fort Wayne Bible College, tells this story of a friend who lives a compassionate life and taught his reluctant teenager the richness of serving without compensation.

Mr. Willis’s friend, a professor, supplemented his salary by painting houses during the summer. His next-door neighbor was impressed with this and decided to paint his own house. But it was a new experience for the neighbor, and progress was painfully slow. One Saturday, when the neighbor was out of town, Mr. Willis’s friend called his teenage son aside and suggested that they do some painting for the neighbor. The son asked what they would charge for the painting. When his father said there would be no charge—they would do it as neighbors—the young man was incredulous.

That Saturday father and son team-painted one side of the house, which was more than the neighbor would have accomplished in a week. When he arrived home, he was overwhelmed by this expression of love by an acquaintance.

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