blessback...why?

I pray that each of us truly get the vision that the Lord has placed in my heart...I have been following Elevation Church (http://www.elevationchurch.org/) in Charlotte, NC for a year or so and a week ago they began a capital campaign and a new series titled Dominate, with the intention to dominate Charlotte with their vision, "So that people far from God will be filled with life in Christ."...therefore they decided to give away $40,000 (their average offering each week) to their congregation in envelopes in amounts of $5, $10, $20, $50, or even $100...1 envelope in each experience contained $1000...they did not take an offering this week...the instruction to each and every individual (children included) in attendance was to take an envelope and bless someone with the enclosed money...they were not allowed to use the money on themselves nor could they give it back to the church...they were then asked to share their experiences at http://www.blessbackproject.com/ ....you can read the stories there....

...anyway this got me to thinking about my own family and how blessed we are...I asked Susie what she thought about giving each of our 6 children (we are both doing this as well) $5 each week to use to bless someone in some way...she said, "wonderful, go for it"...we hope to all be creative and think about what we each can do....then share those stories here of what we do with the $5 the Lord has entrusted to us to bless others in His name...let the fun begin...my prayer is that each of us would catch a glimpse of how generous and loving the Lord desires for us to be.....how He wants us to genuinely be a blessing to others...not only with money but with our time, our hearts, our words, our deeds, etc....I pray we will be bold and not step back but go forward when the Lord prompts us to share...looking for all of us to continually think of and be reminded of opportunities that we have to be a blessing...who knows, maybe our children or even their parents (my wife and I) will add to their weekly blessing dollars and give even more...I am excited to see what will transpire in each of our hearts...I am interested to see what each of them hear when asked why and they simply say we want to bless you because Jesus has blessed us...We started last night by giving my 17 year old his $5, he left early this morning on a 5 day trip with the school...What will he do?..Who will my college kids bless?..I handed one of my college age girls her $5 this evening...what will she do?..who will my 20 year old bless?..my 16 year old?..each of us?