The Compliment Experiment

Cameron Brown and Brett Westcott. OK who are they? What do they do? Why are they in your devotional? They are both sophomores at Purdue University and you can find them every Wednesday from 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm at the central walkway on campus. They are known as The Compliment Guys. They set up their "Free Compliments" sign near a main walkway outside the chemistry building. Rain, snow, sleet, cold -- whatever the weather, The Compliment Guys are "In". They live up to their name. Every person who walks by gets a compliment. To a guy in Purdue sweats they say, "Love your school spirit." To a woman carrying a trendy black bag: "Very nice purse." "It's very large." To the student who ran past them in knee-high leather boots: "I like your hustle." "I like your boots, too."

The guys try to be very personal and specific in their compliments, too. "I like your red coat," Westcott says to a woman listening to her iPod. She turned and laughed, which prompted Brown to say, "Very nice smile." Three women leaving biology lab purposely walked by them. "I like your curly hair. Great smile. I like your glasses," the guys said, pointing to each of the women. One Wednesday, they told a professor to enjoy his coffee, thanked the groundskeepers for their hard work and encouraged someone eating an apple to "stay nutritious."

“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God's grace in its various forms. If you speak, you should do so as one who speaks the very words of God”. (1 Peter 4:10-11)

We’re living in such gloom & doom times that we need a ray of Son shine. Wouldn’t you like to have a compliment? Ah, look at that great smile!

String a pearl: I’m issuing a challenge for you to become compliment people:
For 8 days generously give compliments in five different places. At home, at work, grocery shopping anywhere your life takes you but please start with God and your family. Be creative, be sincere, look into people’s eyes and bless them. While you are busy & concerned with brightening someone else’s day your insides will shine with God’s love. And that my friends is one of the best places for God’s love to be ….. inside you.

Have fun and let me know how it blesses you.

You are some of the most wonderful & beautiful people I know. Nice teeth!
You are loved
Lyndi