Hope in Help

" A desire to positively impact the world can prompt you to seek out opportunities to help others today. You may be in a caring and supportive mood, as well as intensely conscious of the needs of others.

Your innate resourcefulness can help you identify how you might best utilize your skills, time, and financial stores to improve the lives of people in need. You may derive a great deal of satisfaction from helping a colleague complete a difficult task or giving comfort to a loved one. However, you may also feel driven to extend your altruistic acts beyond the scope of your personal and professional spheres. Consider, today, that helping strangers you encounter—even with small, mundane matters—may brighten someone’s day and prove to them that the universe is truly benevolent.

Simple helpfulness can be a balm that has a profoundly soothing effect on the lives of the people around you. Many of the individuals we encounter throughout our lives carry unimaginable burdens yet never speak of the pain they face each day.

When you commit to offering help wherever help is needed, you create myriad opportunities to be a force of positive change in the lives of others. An act of selfless kindness can remind the hopeless and the disillusioned that the people around them really do care and that support will come in times of need.

Your help will be the ray of hope that lights their path toward healing. When you help all those who are in need of assistance today, your actions will touch others deeply."

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In My Opinion.....

I know it's been quite a few Sundays since I shared some inspiration with you, but you can be quite assured that I have many reasons to be inspired this morning....well afternoon.  Through personal trials, like sickness, and stress in all areas of my life, I can see very clearly how much we all need inspiration.

I had a dream last night about being in a concentration camp of women.  I had fallen down a hole, and once I realized I was in another world, I walked around, and began to notice how the women treated each other so mean.  One woman was trying to help another and she was greeted with a slap so hard that it made me shake. When I suggested another way to help the lady who asked the favor....she looked at me real hard.  At that moment, I was afraid I would be next. 

I told my friend the dream this morning, and heard so many symbols in it.  The concentration camp could be more or less the way we treat each other, as women, and as people.  We need to wake up and realize we are all we got....and we come across each others paths for a reason. 

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A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But a few days later he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.

"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone." 

"The Wise Woman's Stone"
 Author Unknown