At church a couple of Sundays ago we were challenged to be more intentional about doing good and were given some specific ideas about what that might mean in practice. Examples were - buy a chocolate bar and give it to the girl on the checkout at the supermarket; give your newsagent a good book to read; donate blood; offer to babysit without being asked and - the one which I found most challenging of all - engage in a conversation with the person who calls from the Indian call centre. I forgot about that one next time I got one of those dreaded calls but resolved to do better next time. When the next opportunity presented itself (as they do almost daily) I tried very hard, however, the gentleman on the other end did not appear to be very much interested in dialogue - he had a speil to get across to me and was not going to be diverted to the right or the left! After about 2 minutes of telling him that I didn't want to change my phone provider I'm afraid I gave up again. I still do believe that we need to be more intentional about doing good and was impressed with one of the pastors quotes "more people have been converted by an act of kindness than by zeal, eloquence and learning put together".
Sorry, I havn't taken any photos this week!