Loving My Actual Neighbor-7 Practices to Treasure the People Right in Front of You: A Review

Alexandra Kuykendall, author of this new title from Baker Books has written this book to help us to see how we can Love our Neighbor who lives next door or down the street anywhere nearby. She also states that we have “neighbors all over the world-but this book is specifically written to help us with our need to love our neighbor who is right close by.”

Dave Runyon, coauthor of the book The Art of Neighboring states:

We have an opportunity to send the world a message of hope by caring for the people right around us. Loving My Actual Neighbor offers practical approaches to connecting with our neighbors, our officemates, and the person we find standing next to us on the soccer sidelines.

Here are some of the points that the author covers:

Holding a Posture of Humility

Asking Questions to Learn

Being Quiet to Listen

Standing in the Awkward

Accepting What Is

Lightening Up

Giving Freely

In the introduction the author quotes C.S. Lewis who wrote:

“Do not waste time bothering whether you “love” your neighbor: act as if you did.

As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

The author uses a lot of illustrations from her life and others from her church on how they practiced the art of loving ones neighbor. She suggests that sometimes we may feel awkward and sometime we won’t know what to do but we and our neighbors will be blessed when we take the opportunity to reach out to our neighbors in small or large ways.

You can order this book on line or check for it at your favorite book store.