Tag: Helping Others

  • Life’s Amphitheater – A Poem About Helping the Less Fortunate

    Life’s Amphitheater – A Poem About Helping the Less Fortunate

    As I was driving down the road the other day and came to a stoplight, my eyes fell upon a young woman begging on the side of the road. I must admit that often times I am quick to judge out of pride or wonder why they are too lazy to pick themselves up and…

  • Inspirational Poem About Helping Poor People, the Homeless, and Fighting World Hunger

    As we go through our day to day lives, it is easy to think our way of life is normal – even expected and demanded. It is easy to think we have it harder than most people and to focus all of our attention on our needs, but our way of life is not the…

  • Whom Shall I Send?

    “And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here I am! Send me.’” (Isaiah 6:8) Many times my selfishness wishes my ears were mute to the Lord’s whisper of “whom shall I send”. I have been searching for God my entire…

  • A New Commandment – Love One Another

    “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you are also to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another.” (John 13:34-35) A Radical Message Over the past few days I’ve been…

  • To Be Human

    To Be Human

    I once believed I was a wallflower, A seed sown in an empty field, Thinking thoughts and speaking in tongues No one could understand, A circus clown performing to a crowd of empty seats, Alienated. Ostracized. Alone. But the more I observe the human condition, The more I see that no one is spared from…

  • Showing the Gospel – Love One Another

    Showing the Gospel – Love One Another

    “He [Jesus] laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him…When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed…

  • A Change of Perspective

    A Change of Perspective

    Recently, I’ve been reading a book called “He Walks Among Us – Encounters With Christ In A Broken World” by Richard and his wife Renee Stearns, who is the president of World Vision – a Christian humanitarian organization. In it, the couple shares stories of children and families they have encountered in their work, applying the…

  • Thinking About and Helping Others

    My moods are like anyone else’s. They come and go, sometimes without any real reason. The past few days I’ve had a hard time accepting all that addiction and mental illness has taken from me. Essentially all of my 20s have been spent battling addiction or anxiety. I have a tenancy to catastrophize my situation…


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