2010 A Year To Give and Receive Blessings

May we all find ways to help others this year. Perhaps your neighbor needs a meal, help with repairs, transformation, childcare, a listening ear. Perhaps your local community churches, and other charitable organizations need your skills/abilites to help others. When we help others by reaching out to them, giving materially, caring for them, or praying with them, we are carry the Lord's blessing to them and we are also blessed with a peace that is beyond understanding.
My heart goes out to the people of Haiti and many others that were there already helping poverty stricken Haiti. The death toll is still growing and devistation is literally everywhere. We have been talking about how we can help. Many want to help and cannot do so monitarily. We were blessed by an email from my neice telling us about a way that Sport Chalet is helping, they give softly used shoes to those in need in many developmental countries. They are currently collecting shoes for distribution in Haiti. My children are conducting a drive to collect shoes from our friends, family, and neighbors. Check out their web site, this opportunity to give is called 'Soles 4 Souls'. Shoes need to be delivered to a Sport Chalet store by January 31. If you can help this way or some other way, please try. I know the Red Cross has been in Haiti as a permenant fixture and their facility was damaged, as well.  There are churches and other organizations that will be traveling there to be helping hands. They are in need of more doctors and nurses, and so many other needs that it can bee overwhelming.
Please find something you can do this year to help others in your family, in your neighborhood, in your community, and beyond your community. May you be blessed this year!