today...a gift, a blesing!

 

 
It has been a week to remember what we would rather wish to forget, that of knowing that a small part of our country suffered death and destruction. That our lives stopped for that moment of time because it passed through all of our minds that, there but for the Grace of God, it could have been in our own community instead. Although the danger now seems to have passed and suspects have been found, it saddens me to think that it can just as easily happen once more.
Pain.
It is all around us. Many of us don't think about what happens in other cities, towns or countries, but unlike our own country of the USA, there are countries that suffer this type of fear on an almost daily basis. They know all about the sound of wars, the pain of hunger, the fear of dying, of being cold, homeless and also realizing that this is their fate.
Do you realize just how lucky you are to have been born into this country, where perpetrators can be brought to justice, where for the price of your working dollars withheld through taxes, you have clean running water, paved roads, hospitals as well as ambulance services to get you there and a police officer just a quick 911 call away??

Well...do you?

Today, take some time to think about this. Give thanks for what you have...then help another who has even less. Because although this IS the good ol' USA...we still have poverty, homelessness, there are many who are suffering from loneliness, who are sick and dying and who have no one else to turn to. Just last night, I received an e-mail from a young man who told me he felt so alone that he wished he could die. It stunned me...that in what we consider "the land of plenty" is a man who feels that he has nothing left to live for.

Our lives are so precious! If you can, be a beacon of Light to another...don't wait! Give of yourself....and show others just how lucky they are that we are all in this life together!