It's In Your Heart

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” Mother Teresa



She was only in 3rd Grade, but she had already learned to be a ‘giver’. (Actually, I think it’s natural and most of us are born that way, we just become desensitized, look outward less and inward more.) She recognized a fellow student in need financially; something the young boy in her classroom whispered to her.

It wasn’t much money she had saved up from Christmas and birthday’s, but she knew she had $80 dollars, and when on the way home from school she told the story of the boy in her class who had a need and she wanted to give him her money, it gives a parent a warm feeling that your daughter’s heart is in the right place. But in the quiet of your mind it can also make you think if you have been so kind. Do I do enough?

I think back on that day, I think back of the child who had put a pair of socks on her Christmas list, and the little girl who asked for a bed. There are so many folks who need US to help. I CHALLENGE myself, my family and you to find a way to help others this holiday season.

Some of us have time to share, some of us have jackets we haven’t worn in years hanging in the closet that can keep someone warm, and there are those of us who have may have a few dollars to spare to help a charitable organization or church feed someone. The objective is getting out and helping; helping someone get through difficult times…….sending a child to school who has eaten a breakfast…..letting strangers know that people do care. Do what you know you should do!

If you read this, I hope it inspires you to help someone, a family, a friend, a stranger. If it does, please pass it on.

May your dreams be filled and blessings shower upon you!

A Pair of Socks

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”

Mother Teresa

A few Christmas' ago, when Rebecca was still in elementary school, Lori volunteered to help a low income area neighboring community school raise Christmas gifts for kids in the same grade as Rebecca. The school had the kids fill out their 'list' of what they would like for Christmas and it was then provided to Lori for her and her team of volunteers to try and fill.

Every Christmas I can't help think back a couple of things on that list. One girl asked for a new pair of socks. Another asked for a bed. Yeah, a pair socks. Imagine that?

Those are those moments in your life that make you stop and think. Think to be thankful, and think that there are people out there struggling. With today's economic slowdown I know there are people out there with needs, maybe even struggling to feed their family this Christmas.

I CHALLENGE myself, and my family, to do something this season that will help someone or a family in need directly and indirectly. To open our eyes, ears, arms, minds, and hearts to those in need.

If only a pair of socks can brighten a child's day, I should be able at least to brighten their holiday season.

Life's Thought Provoking Moments

“The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, she becomes an adolescent; the day she forgives them, she becomes an adult; the days she forgives herself, she becomes wise.”






Those defining moments in life…..the birth of a child, the death of a loved one, a marriage, and in this moment in my life Sarah’s high school graduation. It’s these moments in our lives where we wonder where the time has gone and reflect on how we have spent it.

I think it’s these moments in life the core of our inner being is touched and we are given the opportunity to redirect our lives to spend our time more wisely. Like a sailboat with nobody at the helm, we can drift off course. That inner feeling pulling you to get back on course is only there for a brief time until you lose yourself back to the current forces pulling you along.

It’s this time we need to ride that wave of emotion and reach outside ourselves, break out of our routine, and begin travelling to the place we know we need to be so that when we have that next event in our life we are not wondering where the past few months or years went, wishing the time we spent was spent more wisely.

Did you ever have that empty feeling, wishing you did something you know you should have done? Maybe you read the obituary of a good friend who unexpectedly died, someone you have been thinking about contacting for months or years.

Why do we let time go without keeping those close to us close to us? Why do we let close relationships die? Does not our heart still care?

Life happens and we tend to listen less with our heart. We protect our emotions and guard ourselves. We get busy being busy.

Let’s challenge ourselves to live from our hearts…..call someone we haven’t talk to in a while but have been wondering how they have been doing. Tell our neighbors their yard looks good if we’ve been thinking it.

Live outside yourself today and you will not be worried you haven’t tomorrow.

NOTE: Picture of Sarah and Mom at Pete's house.

SARAH's VIDEO: Link under Links as well.
http://good-times.webshots.com/video/3002388750100508277LxncRw