Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

SABRINA There is a children’s book, “How Full is Your Bucket?” This book is told through the story of a boy named Felix who learns a valuable “bucket filling” metaphor and watches it come to life as the day unfolds. Felix begins to see how every interaction in a day either fills or empties his bucket. He then realizes that everything he says or does to other people fills or empties their buckets as well. Before the day is over, Felix discovers that filling someone else’s bucket also fills his own. Each of us has an invisible bucket. If we fill our buckets with only business and work, we turn into businesspeople. If we fill them with arguments, we become critical. If we fill them with a cynical spirit, we’ll become cynics. If we fill them with joy, we’ll experience tremendous happiness. Here’s the simple message Jesus has for us: If we fill our buckets with love, we can actually become love. It’s how we engage with those we come in contact with that shows who and whose we really are. People don’t grow where they’re planted; they grow where they’re loved. So today, go into the day like Felix – with the sole intention of filling the buckets of others, and in the meantime, you will find your own bucket filled.

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