Honor is one little word that holds much power. Our family chose “honor” as our one word focus for 2012. As the year draws to a close, we realize we still have so much to learn about honoring one another, God and others. We wanted to do something to ramp up honor in our home. Using technology and the tools we have at our fingertips, we are going to being a blog, and name it “The Honor Project.” Each week we will take time to sit down and intentionally write words of praise for our family members and honor them for the positive character qualities we see in their lives. I believe this project will have a lasting impact on our lives and on the generations to come. It dawned on me that others might jump into a similar project if given the challenge. I invite you to join us! I have set up a Facebook page (“The Honor Project”) to encourage us to stay the course. I will make suggestions of how to start, but make it your own project! Some will use blogs, while others will choose to write in journals or in cards. Make this work for you and your family. What matters is that we speak words of love and affirmation over our loved ones. I’ve always said, “Give me flowers while I’m living.” In other words, don’t wait until I die to come to my funeral and give a flowery speech of what I meant to you. It’s too late. I’m gone. Instead, see each day as a precious opportunity to speak life, love and kindness into the lives of those closest to you.
Honor begins at home. We may be able to speak kindly to our co-workers, neighbors, or total strangers. What do we say to those who live under the same roof? Do we assume they know that we love them? Do we assume they know what we appreciate about them? Do we assume they know the qualities we find most beautiful within their hearts? Let’s stop assuming and let’s start sharing!
Hebrews 3:13 admonishes us, “But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today.” There are many other passages in the Bible that command us to encourage, edify and build each other up. Find one that your family loves and memorize it together. It may be the very thing that keeps you going when you start to stray from this project.
1.) First, decide if you want to blog this journey, or use another method. If you choose to blog, I suggest a free site such as Blogger.
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We are choosing to make our blog private, so that we are the only ones who can read it or write in it.
2.) Next, decide how often you and your family members will write to each other. If you choose to write once a week, maybe each person could be assigned to a certain day of the week. Make it work for you/your family!
3.) The goal of “The Honor Project” is to share only things that edify encourage and build up others. A suggested script might be, “Dear _____. You showed ________ (name the positive character trait) when you _______________________ (name the specific incident/evidence of that trait). It made me feel _______________ (name the positive emotion you felt) when you did this….” This is only a suggestion and may be expounded on. I will add a resource to this page with suggested positive character traits as well as emotions.
4.) Feel free to add photos, songs and other graphics that would enhance your posts.
5,) Encourage family members to read the blog often, perhaps even go back and re-read precious posts.
6.) Choose one night each week (or each month) to sit down as a family and discuss the blog and how it is affecting you. This would be a wonderful time to let others know how their words make you feel.
7.) At the end of the year, or when you have enough entries written, consider going to http://blog2print.sharedbook.com/blogworld/printmyblog/index.html and print out your blog to have as a family keepsake.
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