As Christmas approaches, is anyone in your family thinking about a turkey? A rib roast? Will you be blessed to have a wonderful family gathering with all the trimmings that go with the great feast, which is the Christmas dinner? Not everyone will be so fortunate.
I want to remind you of an extremely important program that operates in this city and all across our country, namely Meals on Wheels. I am writing this in the Christmas rush. I don’t have exact figures for everything that our local group is doing, but it involves thousands of people and vast quantities of food delivered to front doors of elderly people who are often sick and alone.
While we have always had hunger in our midst, it has become much more widespread in urban America. Sixty or seventy years ago, our families lived close together, not only in the same city but often in the same neighborhood. Today, families are scattered across the country. Meals on Wheels is a wonderful and generous response to that difficult situation. It lessens not only the pain of hunger, but isolation as well. These warm meals, delivered directly to the recipients, make a tremendous difference in the lives of these people for whom life is sometimes quite dreary.
The director of Meals on Wheels is Dan Pruett and his telephone number is (512) 476-6325. Could you:
a) Send a check today to Meals on Wheels
b) Volunteer to help Meals on Wheels
c) Send a check AND volunteer
Now there is the spirit of Christ! May God bless you all.
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As the joyful chaos of Christmas roars around us, many of us feel real stress, both in terms of our financial resources and our time. There is so much to be done and these are difficult times.
For several days, I have been encouraging contributions to extraordinary programs in Austin that reach out and change people’s lives in a very dramatic and beautiful way. However, nearly everyone is short on money at this time. If you are in that category, how about giving a little more of you, yourself?
There is not a single one of these organizations that I have mentioned and will mention in the coming weeks that does not have a pressing need for more volunteers. Meals on Wheels is a great example of that. I personally believe that the involvement of ourselves directly in aid to those who are suffering is even more valuable than a financial gift. Of course, we have to have both but if you find things a little tight as the year draws to a close, make one of those phone calls and volunteer a few hours a week or a few hours a month as the case may be.
Let me close by again mentioning Meals on Wheels. That warm, hot meal brought to the house to an old person is a wonderful gift but, quite frankly, an even greater gift is the warm smile of the person making the delivery who treats the recipient as a dignified human being, a child of God, a brother or sister with us on our way to eternal life.
Volunteer – volunteer – volunteer!
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Tomorrow I will begin tackling the tough issues again, but today let’s go with a few simple yet powerful thoughts.
Forgive everyone everything.
Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does!
Believe in miracles.
God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
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The week between Christmas and New Years is not all that productive for most of us. For that reason, I am going to take off for a few days. However, my editor refuses to release me of the responsibility of saying something on the blog, so I am going to take a shortcut and borrow someone else’s work…
I was given a beautiful series of pictures from Norway with simple sentences on the bottom of each one. They are described as lessons in our life and I think that most of them, although obvious, are very meaningful. Here are a few more snippets while I continue on the road.
Life isn’t fair but it is still good.
Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
Make peace with your past so it wont mess up the present.
It is okay to let your children see you cry; it is better to let them see you PRAY.
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