Getting involved - are you?
Every day the world keeps turning and we keep moving with it. Get up, get the kids ready, make a meal, go to work, make a dollar, go shopping, chat with friends, go to bed, start all over again!
Sound like your life? Ready for a change? Do your circumstances hold you hostage? Does your life keep you prisoner in a merry-go-round? Sure there are things you can't change right now - you need to keep the job that pays the bills - the kids need new shoes. BUT are there things - just little things - that if you changed them - would give you some more joy - a feeling, that you are contributing the world a little more?
Like so many people, my life is often stretched among so many demands - children, clients, home, pets, family, friends, community, my own desire to have a little quietness! But in those quiet moments I want to know that at the end of the day I have done something that "means something". Today I have found a place where I could contribute some little part of me that can make a difference - and it does MEAN something.
The Hunger Site - go here every day (they'll even send you an email to remind you or you can set it as your homepage when your browser opens) and click the GIVE FREE FOOD button and a cup of food is donated by the site sponsors!
In 2004 this meant 39,809,114 clicks, 45,278,373 cups of food, 2,795 metric tonnes of food, 5,589,999 pounds of food!
This one small act EVERY day can mean so much. Tell your friends - your co-workers, your children! Get them to pass the word - we can really make a difference!
The few moments it takes me to go to this one site each day is nothing in terms of my time - but in terms of someone else's life it can be huge. But more importantly for me - it reminds me each day how lucky I am - it raises my awareness and it gets me thinking throughout the rest of the day "what else can I do?"
Sound like your life? Ready for a change? Do your circumstances hold you hostage? Does your life keep you prisoner in a merry-go-round? Sure there are things you can't change right now - you need to keep the job that pays the bills - the kids need new shoes. BUT are there things - just little things - that if you changed them - would give you some more joy - a feeling, that you are contributing the world a little more?
Like so many people, my life is often stretched among so many demands - children, clients, home, pets, family, friends, community, my own desire to have a little quietness! But in those quiet moments I want to know that at the end of the day I have done something that "means something". Today I have found a place where I could contribute some little part of me that can make a difference - and it does MEAN something.
The Hunger Site - go here every day (they'll even send you an email to remind you or you can set it as your homepage when your browser opens) and click the GIVE FREE FOOD button and a cup of food is donated by the site sponsors!
In 2004 this meant 39,809,114 clicks, 45,278,373 cups of food, 2,795 metric tonnes of food, 5,589,999 pounds of food!
This one small act EVERY day can mean so much. Tell your friends - your co-workers, your children! Get them to pass the word - we can really make a difference!
The few moments it takes me to go to this one site each day is nothing in terms of my time - but in terms of someone else's life it can be huge. But more importantly for me - it reminds me each day how lucky I am - it raises my awareness and it gets me thinking throughout the rest of the day "what else can I do?"
posted by Wendy McClelland @ 2:24 PM
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