10 Easy Ways to Bless Your Neighbor
Love ’em or hate ’em, your neighbors are the people you’re stuck sharing a fence with. They’re also the perfect people to bless.
After all, it’s really easy to help people consistently, sacrificially and even anonymously when they’re only a few feet away.
Here are 10 easy ways to bless those living right around you.
1. Do Their Yard Work
There are a lot of tasks you can do outside of your neighbor’s home that would bless them. You could surprise them by raking the leaves, mowing their yard, pulling weeds, bringing the trash cans up to their house, or shoveling their driveway. Take it a step further and ask if there is anything you could help with inside their house.
2. Bring in Their Mail
If you have a neighbor who is getting older and can’t walk so well, get in the habit of bringing up their mail for them. While you may want to get permission before you go rifling through people’s mail, if your neighbors are older, this would be incredibly easy and appreciated.
3. Offer to Run an Errand for Them
Are you headed out to the store anyway? Drop by your neighbor’s house and ask if there is anything you can pick up for them before you go.
While many people will be polite and decline your offer, if you’re headed out anyway and it’s snowy and they need something, they just might take you up on it! Refuse to take their money if you can.
4. Make Them Dinner
Have your neighbors recently moved in or had a baby? Make them dinner!
A traditional neighborly gesture, this one is still just as good today. After all, who wouldn’t appreciate the night off from cooking? As an extra blessing, include paper plates, cups, and napkins so they don’t have to do the dishes either!
5. Keep a Watchful Eye Over Their Home
Do your neighbors ever go on vacation or work late? Keep a watchful eye on their house while they’re away. If you notice anything strange, err on the side of caution and contact your neighbor.
6. Visit with Your Neighbors
Whether your neighbors are older people who don’t receive many visitors or stay-at-home moms who are cooped up in the house with kids all day long, sometimes the best thing you can do is simply to sit and visit with them.
With social media and the internet, people don’t do this as much as they used to, but we should. It’s a great way to really get to know people and their stories, and to find real, practical ways to get involved in their lives.
7. Take Their Dog for a Walk
If your neighbor has a dog, see if you can help them out by taking them for a long walk around the neighborhood. This is a great way to get your whole family involved and get some exercise too!
8. Help with Childcare
Bless your neighbor by giving them an hour or two of kid-free time. This could be at a time when your neighbor really needs help or on just a random day where you have some free time.
9. Give Them a Card
Take time to think about what you appreciate about your neighbor and write it down in a nice card. You could even write them a note of encouragement if you know that would be helpful.
10. Share Vegetables from Your Garden
If you are a gardener, there comes a time in the summer where you have an abundance of produce on your hands. Sharing some fresh, homegrown vegetables with your neighbor would be a great way to show that you care.
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Yes, Christians Should Judge. Here’s Why.
Tired of judgemental Christians? Me too.
But, unfortunately, simply scolding someone online isn’t enough to make all the judgmental haters quit with their biting comments.
Furthermore, contrary to popular belief, the Bible actually says Christians should judge.
Here’s what the Bible says on the matter, why Christians should judge others (at times), and why you probably should too.
