For the past week I have been staying up every night to create a surprise for two of my friends who left today for the Dominican. The surprise was an card of encouragement for each day they were gone. As I wrote, I tried to listen to God's guidance in what I said. I wanted the cards to be a reminder of the prayer that was behind them, and of the people excited to hear the things they did when they came home.
Since today's topic is encouragement, I tried my best today to give people around me encouragement. I told a Chinese foreign exchange student that I thought she was beautiful, but she gave me an odd look and shook her head. I smiled at a lot of people, and I had a conversation with my old art teacher whom I love. I told another girl she had pretty eyes and I laughed at my dad's jokes. ( :) )
Encouragement is beautiful because it gives hope. Encouragement is beautiful because it helps me survive the bad days. Encouragement is beautiful because it creates relationships.
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