HELP!

While on a business trip to Philadelphia I was captured by the 125 anniversary issue of National Geographic.  It was a special issue dedicated to the photographs that had been captured/published via the magazine.

While perusing and enjoying the imagery there was a short article on conflicts that were happening throughout the world.  Within one of those articles there was a photo of children waiting with a teaspoon on a bowl of rice and beans.  When the bowl was passed by, the children would take their spoonful and pass it along to the next child.  Another article/image showed a young man carrying a goat, that had been killed by a toxic fire, to be cooked and eaten.  Not only was he placing himself in danger by scavenging (or should I say surviving) in the area.  He was adding to the danger by taking meat to eat.

Then I asked myself, what would I do?  The answer was easy - THE SAME THING HE WAS DOING!  The tipping point for me was when the caption read that an American woman and church friends had contacted the Geographic so they could pay for the young man to go to school.  Then the question for me became - do I have a responsibility to try and make the world a better place by trying to help someone in this type of situation?  As I sat, coasting 35,000 feet above the ground, contemplating my response to what I had just read, I was further moved to take action here in the USA.  While I recognize that there is a great need abroad, there too exists a great need right here in our backyard.

While I am not sure where to begin my search, I imagine once I place energy into it there will be more choices than I know what to do with.  Then I wonder how to prepare myself for all of the need that will most likely be uncovered once I begin to dig.  I have a few ideas of how to make this a sustainable project.  I think our business - His House Productions should take a percentage of sales and donate to a well vetted cause.

Soo many times the help that others need is very simple but we have to open ourselves and hearts to the blessings that are disguised as work.  Sometimes the work needed is an open ear, hug, meal, hand me down, etc...

I will keep you posted on the options/progress.  Maybe you too will be inspired to play the love forward (if you are already not doing so).  We all need help of some sort at various places in our lives - wouldn't you agree?

Quote the verse that says our response is for widows, children, etc...

Blessings,
-d

James 1:27 - "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world."