Introduction to this Blog

I am starting this blog because I want somewhere to log all the ideas my husband and I get of ways that we see from day to day to help people.  We see so much need everywhere we look and it is heartbreaking.  My hope is that one day we will have a LOT of money and work our way through all of these ideas.

So many people these days are so caught up in their own lives to look around them.  To see the daily struggles of others just trying to make it through the day.  This blog is dedicated to those people, the ones who feel invisible in their struggling. The ones crying out to God for help day after day.  The homeless people who fell into bad circumstances trapping them in a place they don't want to be.  The husband working two jobs and still not making enough for his family to live beyond pay cheque to pay cheque.

I confess I have been one of those people who's first thought when seeing someone with a sign on the side of the road was 'why doesn't he go and get a job instead of standing there?'.  I was so convicted of how heartless that is. Who am I to judge any person? I have not walked in their shoes. I have no idea of the tragedies and heartbreaks and things that have brought them to this place.  And the humiliation they must feel having to stand and ask people for money is just another whole level of humanity altogether.

Bad things can happen to ANYONE.  ANYONE.  They are not always a result of bad decisions or choices - but even if they are - who are we to judge?  We all make bad decisions and choices.   If you have ever been in that place where you were trapped with no way out in a bad situation - you will understand.  I have.  And I am glad now for that suffering which has taught me mercy, compassion and stripped me of my quick to judge attitude.  I am that person who has lived paycheck to paycheck. I know how it feels to never feel you can get ahead, that your dreams are just out of reach.

While I am still in that place, I believe things can change in a moment.  And when they do, I will have this blog to come back to where I want to start helping others get out of this situation too.  It feels impossible right now but it will happen, of that I am sure.  So for now I dream big and await the provision to put this in action.

I welcome your contributions also. Thank you for reading this.