Building blocks

When I was a kid, I loved building things out of wooden blocks. 

Mostly I would build houses and lay down blocks to design floor plans.  I would lay out each room, then I would bring in with my little wooden people and have them occupy my creation.

Lately, I've been thinking about building people rather than building things out of blocks.

People can be just as fragile as my houses built out of kid blocks.  One easy brush and they fall down.  It's far too easy to year people down. 

I'm constantly looking at ways I can do the latter and build people up.  I challenge my (hot tempered) husband to do the same.  We both struggled with tearing people down rather than building them up.   It's too easy to tell your teenage daughter that she's not capable of doing something rather than inspiring her to reach for the stars.

When you think about the life of Jesus.. He always built people up (except for the hypocritical Pharisees... He tried to tear them down...) He healed, hung out and encouraged the broken lives around him daily. 

The next time you are in a situation to say something ugly or say something lovely.

  

Choose to build up...