{"id":12724,"date":"2025-07-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/?p=12724"},"modified":"2025-06-06T05:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T10:11:41","slug":"do-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/do-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Good"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One-minute read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"940\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Yellow-Brush-Strokes-Spring-Facebook-Post.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Yellow-Brush-Strokes-Spring-Facebook-Post.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Yellow-Brush-Strokes-Spring-Facebook-Post-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Yellow-Brush-Strokes-Spring-Facebook-Post-768x644.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any time we have the chance to do good, God wants us to do it, especially for fellow believers.\u00a0 Helping other Christ followers encourages and uplifts them, enabling them to persevere on their journey.\u00a0 Whenever I feel discouraged and receive an email or comment that my writing has helped someone, it motivates me to keep going.\u00a0 <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Last week, I had lunch with a friend who read my book\u00a0<em>4:13 Doing Hard Things with Strength,<\/em><\/span>\u00a0and it helped her through a health crisis.\u00a0 Her excitement as she shared with me the book&#8217;s impact on her life did me good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doing good for others has different forms.\u00a0 Taking a meal to a family struggling with a loss or a difficult situation.\u00a0 Sending a note of encouragement to a church member facing a giant.\u00a0 Visiting with an elderly friend.\u00a0 Mowing the lawn for a single mother.\u00a0 Running errands for someone laid up with an illness.\u00a0 Endless possibilities exist for doing good to others.\u00a0 If we tune our eyes and ears to the needs of others, we will find plenty of opportunities to do good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask God to show you who needs encouragement today.\u00a0 Find ways to do good for them, giving their soul a lift, and helping them persevere in the day-to-day trials of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Journal Question:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">How has someone doing good for you uplifted you in the past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Random Act of Kindness:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">What can you do for a friend that will uplift and encourage them today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-minute read. Any time we have the chance to do good, God wants us to do it, especially for fellow believers.\u00a0 Helping other Christ followers encourages and uplifts them, enabling them to persevere on their journey.\u00a0 Whenever I feel discouraged and receive an email or comment that my writing has helped someone, it motivates me&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/09\/do-good\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do Good<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12728,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12724\/revisions\/12728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}