Pass It On!

“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
George Eliot

A great Pastor I know says quite often to his congregation, “We are better together than apart.”  which goes with the old saying of, “Many hands make light work.”

More often than not we run into people trying to handle the difficulties of life on their own, some of which don’t have much of a choice in a situation, and those that do.  Mothers with screaming babies in carts, with toddlers hanging onto the side of the cart, and a grocery list in hand just trying to get enough food for supper that night.  Staring faces, disgruntled seniors telling the woman to take those kids and go, they don’t know why screaming kids have to come to stores or restraraunts.

We have men and women out of work struggling with day to day basics like food, clothing, and shelter.  The cold winds of winter are coming and just a shirt on their back is precious. 

Today, while many of you begin to digg through your winter clothes and prepare for the onset of cold weather, set aside a sweater or two from someone who needs it.  As you walk through a store or sit down at lunch at the local diner, offer a hand to someone who could use one.  Is there that particular person where you work, where you go to school, that always seems to be alone?  Offer your friendship.

All these things go hand and hand.  Life doesn’t have to be as difficult as we make it, we just need to learn to accept the difficulties and the hands that reach out to pull us through them.

PASS IT ON