Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Done and done! The tournament is over will our blogs be done? I love looking forward to comments and stories! I love you all and look forward to hearing about your everyday life. What spoke to you today? Your dad and I went without shoes (barefoot) to highlight world poverty. This day coincided with what Toms shoes had planned. I made signs for your dad's office talking about poverty facts and why he was doing this. As today dawned I wondered how I could have an impact. I wanted to get groceries, but knew that they would not allow me in, oh, well I'll get them tomorrow with shoes. I wanted to meet a friend for coffee, not without shoes, they would not let me in, oh well, I will do it Thursday. Then I decided to exercise without shoes. I normally walk for at least an hour. I go at least at 4.2 to 4.3 mph. I managed 1 mile at 4.2. The rest of the hour were at 3.5 then 3.0. I have HUGE blisters on my feet and could not move very well. What about the people that never have shoes. I know that their feet become hardened, but do their hearts as well? How are you helping those without shoes or Christ? I ordered two pairs of TOMS. One for one. You can see about the Day Without Shoes, April 5, 2011 on their web site. I know that we are responsible for those less fortunate. Challenge: What are you doing?
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Our families biggest concern has been the local less fortunate. We support a Compassion child from Rwanda, and often donate food through Heifer International... but we concentrate much of our emotional investment locally.
ReplyDeleteWe have 2 families coming to our church that we help support, one family has three boys that we help go to school at Bethany and we also pay various odds and ends for them. Another family just joined us as both parents lost their jobs and they didn't know where to turn. We may get to do a child dedication this year for their youngest!
So that's what we're doing right now for the less fortunate.