Please click on this link and read it and then pray. Thousands of people in Somali need help especially children.
9.09.2011
Miracle breakthrough needed to reach starving Somali children
Miracle breakthrough needed to reach starving Somali children
9.07.2011
Being Cheap? or Uncompassionate?
A couple weekends ago I had a garage sale with all the proceeds going to World Vision to help feed the starving in the Horn of Africa. It amazed me that people were still cheap and not willing to give a little more. I understand that garage sales are meant to find deals but if someone is giving ALL proceeds to feed the hungry wouldn't you be willing to give a little extra? Why are we so immune to other's suffering? I know we all have different passions and concerns and that's the way it should be BUT still you can't give a little extra. You can't pay $3 instead of a $1.50 or $4 instead of $1? One guy wanted his $.50 back! It's not like I was asking someone to give $20. Am I being totally silly about this?
9.02.2011
The 2nd Greatest Commandment
The two greatest commandments in the Bible are:
When you want something you go out and get it, right....? When you're hungry you get something to eat. Whatever YOU need, you get for yourself. You would never let YOU, not receive something you need and sometimes even things you want.
We are so quick to meet our own needs but we hesitant when other's need our help. Or we don't give as much as we are able to. It's not our responsibility. We're only suppose to take care of ourselves. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there and I have to watch out for myself or no one will. We see these attitudes a lot in this world.
But what IF, we stopped looking at other people and started SEEING them. What if we started LOVING them like we love ourselves. Because we all know we love "me." The human race is selfish and greedy and thinks me a whole lot. I'm not saying there's not good people out there and that we don't help BUT we can't deny that if we all LOVED our NEIGHBOR as ourselves than this world would be in a much better place. And by neighbor I don't mean the person living beside your house or apartment. I mean the WHOLE WORLD. Every person, every country, every continent. No one is forgotten.
Does anyone else see how amazing this concept is? That if we met other people's needs as quickly as our own needs, then this world wouldn't be suffering so much. There wouldn't be as much violence and war. There'd be much more love and compassion and kindness. I could go for that!
- Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. (This is the first and the greatest commandment)
- Love your neighbor as yourself
When you want something you go out and get it, right....? When you're hungry you get something to eat. Whatever YOU need, you get for yourself. You would never let YOU, not receive something you need and sometimes even things you want.
We are so quick to meet our own needs but we hesitant when other's need our help. Or we don't give as much as we are able to. It's not our responsibility. We're only suppose to take care of ourselves. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there and I have to watch out for myself or no one will. We see these attitudes a lot in this world.
But what IF, we stopped looking at other people and started SEEING them. What if we started LOVING them like we love ourselves. Because we all know we love "me." The human race is selfish and greedy and thinks me a whole lot. I'm not saying there's not good people out there and that we don't help BUT we can't deny that if we all LOVED our NEIGHBOR as ourselves than this world would be in a much better place. And by neighbor I don't mean the person living beside your house or apartment. I mean the WHOLE WORLD. Every person, every country, every continent. No one is forgotten.
Does anyone else see how amazing this concept is? That if we met other people's needs as quickly as our own needs, then this world wouldn't be suffering so much. There wouldn't be as much violence and war. There'd be much more love and compassion and kindness. I could go for that!
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