Show me your hands.
Do they have scars from giving?
Show me your feet.
Are they wounded in service?
Show me your heart.
Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. Sheen
Few of us have the means or the funding to save the world, but we are all capable of generating change in our own lives as well as the lives of others. Giving isn't just about money. There are many ways we can extend comfort and assistance to others with out spending our savings.
Volunteering is the most obvious way to serve whether it is at a community center, neighborhood school, or local hospital. If we earmark our favorite things to do then we can orchestrate how to apply this to others.
If gardening is our delight, we can share our harvest with neighbors or participate with other gardeners in making a community garden. If we have an artistic flair, we can share our ability with after school or summer programs. If we have a passion for reading, some libraries have programs for taping a verbal reading to give to the vision impaired. Teachers, lawyers, accountants and police or fire men are welcomed to assist those less fortunate through community or school associations. Mentors are always needed, but the ability to listen is a gift in itself.
So give it some thought. Bake some cookies and share with a neighbor. Take a favorite child's book to be read to a youngster who has a new baby brother or sister. Call someone
who is healing or who is alone. Only we can decide our individual passion and how we can extend it to others.
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