MaRY

GIVING

I recently had a great email “conversation” today with my friend.  I was struggling with some changes and she relayed to me a great passage she had recently read:

Sit in the sun and warm up. Sit in the sun. soak up the love and warmth from the world around you. take that warmth into your everyday life. open your heart more to the people you see, the people you meet, the people you greet, and the people you love. practice being warm, loving and open. do more than just think a kind loving thought. say it. do more than just think of something nice you’d like to do for someone. do it. 

I recently was made aware of this website: www.dannyisthebomb.com through the same friend.  I breezed over the site.  I came back again and read more thoroughly.  I then came across a section of the site and read this:   It’s selfish to just read on this website. If you have bothered to come on this website then you either know Danny personally or have been affected or touched by him somehow. If you have visited this website then contribute to it.  It struck a chord with me. First of all because my family had a hard year in 2010.  We struggled, we loved and some how we pushed through.  My grandmother passed away after living an awesome 93 years.  We knew it was coming but it was a long, hard road.  And then in the fall our family childhood friend suddenly became ill in September.  My brother spent countless days and nights by his bedside at the hospital, helping his buddies wife - all the while going to work and taking care of his own family.  Unfortunately a month into his hospital stay - he passed away.  39.  Only 39 years old.  I could tell my brother was struggling during the hospital visits….but he pushed through and we did all we could do to be there for him and our family friend.  So seeing this website about someone so young and so full of life and seeing the affect it had not only on his life, but his girlfriend, brother and family really brought it home for me.  So I donated and I will again.  

I think too often in this fast paced world - we forget to just stop and be human.  We forget to reach out to others and be there for each other.  I include myself in this generalization.  We get caught up in our lives and plowing forward that sometimes we just need to live a little more.  I could have easily just read  through this website and carried on with my daily life.  While I don’t know the family, I know that support is so important….and I want to be one of those people that does things, that follows through with my word and contributes.

So, take the time.  Look at the site:  www.dannyisthebomb.com  Give. Donate. Be there.  And pass it on.  And if not at this particular place - check out things in your community.  Do it.