CHARITY

This is the time of year when Dad and I start getting letters asking for charity. Every letter that comes represents a worthwhile cause. We want to give to worthy causes; ones that we know the money goes to where it is needed. Charity is not only in our giving but in our words and deeds. It is giving our hearts, time and talents and energies to make some ones life a little easier.

"To ease anther's heartache is to forget one's own." Abraham Lincoln

 Every church I have been involved in has reached out to help the hungry, the homeless, the poor and down and out.  We have gone down into the poor part of town to serve meals and to visit with street people.  We have given out food and provided warm clothes.  I was proud of the things we did in the name of Jesus.

Dad and I are thankful that we can give.

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
--Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.   One To One

"The mass of humanity worry themselves into nameless graves,
 while here and there
a great unselfish soul forgets itself into immortality."  -Ralph Waldo Emerson