{"id":387,"date":"2011-03-27T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/?p=387"},"modified":"2011-05-09T14:35:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:35:02","slug":"silver-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Silver Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boxes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-466\" title=\"boxes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.barbdahlgren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/boxes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>Florence Littauer\u2019s book <em>Silver Boxes<\/em> is about unexpected little gifts of encouragement you give to others. She likens encouragement to a box wrapped in silver with a lovely bow on top. I love this analogy.<\/p>\n<p>Encouragement is so important because it goes straight to the heart of a person. In fact in Latin \u201cen\u201d means \u201cput into\u201d and \u201ccor\u201d means \u201cthe heart.\u201d Put into the heart! I\u2019ve heard it said that one word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than a 100 words of praise during a success.<\/p>\n<p>We live in an ultra busy, rat race society. Giving encouragement to others falls way down at the bottom of our to-do list, if it makes the list at all. Yet, God himself is the great encourager (Psalm 10:17, Romans 15:5, 2 Thessalonians 2:16, 17) with the Bible being the most encouraging book ever written. God wishes for us to comfort, exhort, and encourage one another as well (I Thessalonians 4:18; 5:11: Hebrews 3:13).<\/p>\n<p>Our dog eat dog world is filled with unrealistic expectations. Satan uses this to tear us down, make us feel unimportant and unappreciated, or like we don\u2019t belong. Encouragers are Christ\u2019s representatives here on earth. Their mission is to \u201cput into the heart\u201d of people the thought that they are appreciated and someone cares.<\/p>\n<p>Give a little \u201csilver box\u201d gift of encouragement to someone today. They will be uplifted and so will you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florence Littauer\u2019s book Silver Boxes is about unexpected little gifts of encouragement you give to others. She likens encouragement to a box wrapped in silver with a lovely bow on top. I love this analogy. Encouragement is so important because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=387\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}