"We must be the change we wish to see in the world." Gandhi.
Wow, what a simple statement with so much potential.
I ran across a poster from an artist by the name of Karen Kerney that lists simple suggestions that can help restore our eroding sense of community. Virtually everyone can do most items.
Text reads...
Turn off your TV
Leave your house
Know your neighbors
Look up when you are walking
Greet people
Plant flowers
Use your library
Play together
Buy from local merchants
Share what you have
Help a lost dog
Take children to the park
Garden together
Support neighborhood schools
Fix it even it you didn't break it
Have pot lucks
Honor elders
Pick up litter
Talk to the mail carrier
Start a tradition
Bake extra and share
Share your skills
Take back the night
Listen before you react in anger
Seek to understand
Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
Start with just a few items listed above and implement them into your life the next month or two and see what happens. Together We Can Make A Difference!
Have a great weekend.
Hollie
Friday, October 22, 2010
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Be Alert for Ways You Can Serve
The world needs your helping hands and willing heart. Set your intention and make yourself available to God, and he will bring opportunities for service to you.
Be attentive to what's going on around you and see where a helping hand might make a difference. Look for people who need your help. Perhaps an overwhelmed friend or neighbor would appreciate a casserole. Maybe you could lend a hand to a coworker overwhelmed by tight deadlines.
Make service a way of life, and give freely of yourself. Is someone you know facing difficulty? Be someone who is willing to listen, and maybe give a hug or a smile.
Remember, USA Weekend magazine's nation-wide Make A Difference Day is soon approaching...next Saturday, October 23. See last week's posting for ideas on ways you and your family can make a difference.
Shelly, my sister-in-law, and Katie, my three-year old niece, and I are putting together chili, corn muffin, and brownie making kits. Katie is decorating the recipe cards and together we will assemble the kits and deliver to our local food pantry.
My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1John 3:18 (NKJV)
Be attentive to what's going on around you and see where a helping hand might make a difference. Look for people who need your help. Perhaps an overwhelmed friend or neighbor would appreciate a casserole. Maybe you could lend a hand to a coworker overwhelmed by tight deadlines.
Make service a way of life, and give freely of yourself. Is someone you know facing difficulty? Be someone who is willing to listen, and maybe give a hug or a smile.
Remember, USA Weekend magazine's nation-wide Make A Difference Day is soon approaching...next Saturday, October 23. See last week's posting for ideas on ways you and your family can make a difference.
Shelly, my sister-in-law, and Katie, my three-year old niece, and I are putting together chili, corn muffin, and brownie making kits. Katie is decorating the recipe cards and together we will assemble the kits and deliver to our local food pantry.
My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 1John 3:18 (NKJV)
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Make A Difference Day Is Almost Here (Oct 23)
On Saturday, October 23, millions of Americans will volunteer in their communities on USA WEEKEND's Make A Difference Day, the nation's largest day of doing service.
If you don't already volunteer in some way or form this event might be just the nudge you need to get started on the wonderful path of helping others. The ideas are endless on ways to participate.
If you have small children, volunteer as a family. If you have adult children, get together and volunteer as a family (see the theme here--wink, wink). Children love to get involved and to help others. What a wonderful way to spend time as a family plus instill in young children the importance of helping others. Who knows, this may become a family tradition, or better yet, a way of life.
Put your thinking cap on and come up with ways you can make an impact. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
There's strength in numbers...Together We Can Make A Difference!
God bless,
Hollie
If you don't already volunteer in some way or form this event might be just the nudge you need to get started on the wonderful path of helping others. The ideas are endless on ways to participate.
If you have small children, volunteer as a family. If you have adult children, get together and volunteer as a family (see the theme here--wink, wink). Children love to get involved and to help others. What a wonderful way to spend time as a family plus instill in young children the importance of helping others. Who knows, this may become a family tradition, or better yet, a way of life.
Put your thinking cap on and come up with ways you can make an impact. Here are a few ideas to get you started:
- Bag canned-good ingredients for chili, including the recipe, and deliver to a food pantry.
- Decorate small pumpkins and deliver to a senior center or nursing home.
- Make get-well cards and deliver to hospitalized children.
- Help older people (neighbors or church members) with home projects or fall yard duties.
- Call non-profit organizations and ask how you can help.
- Teachers - brainstorm with your students on ways the classroom can get involved.
- Ask your pastor about areas you can volunteer at church.
- Ask co-workers to join you in a community project.
There's strength in numbers...Together We Can Make A Difference!
God bless,
Hollie
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