Comments on: How will you serve the cause of beauty and justice? http://whatareyougivingaway.com/2009/08/how-will-you-serve-the-cause-of-beauty-and-justice/ Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:07:36 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Steve http://whatareyougivingaway.com/2009/08/how-will-you-serve-the-cause-of-beauty-and-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Steve Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:58:59 +0000 http://whatareyougivingaway.com/?p=147#comment-63 Next week I'll be painting my friend's house. She's been in a wheelchair for the last 20 or so years from a bizarre accident when a bell tower, at a bible camp, collapsed on her leaving her without the use of her legs. Judy lives close to us. I walk by her house daily on my routine dog walk. Last fall I noticed her house desparately needed painting and pointed it out to her. "Somebody noticed!!" She exclaimed. So next week, a few of us will set aside a couple of days to spruce up her place. In the end I don't think it is the work that has touched her as the fact that someone noticed. It is not my nature to notice things, but when you see the meaningful impact, it encourages me to attend more deeply to things and folks around. I Next week I’ll be painting my friend’s house. She’s been in a wheelchair for the last 20 or so years from a bizarre accident when a bell tower, at a bible camp, collapsed on her leaving her without the use of her legs.

Judy lives close to us. I walk by her house daily on my routine dog walk. Last fall I noticed her house desparately needed painting and pointed it out to her. “Somebody noticed!!” She exclaimed.

So next week, a few of us will set aside a couple of days to spruce up her place. In the end I don’t think it is the work that has touched her as the fact that someone noticed.

It is not my nature to notice things, but when you see the meaningful impact, it encourages me to attend more deeply to things and folks around.

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]]> By: Susan http://whatareyougivingaway.com/2009/08/how-will-you-serve-the-cause-of-beauty-and-justice/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Susan Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:11:32 +0000 http://whatareyougivingaway.com/?p=147#comment-54 There's a young American girl in Uganda who has adopted 14 (at last count, I think) children and has founded an organization that feeds hundreds more. She's 19 (may have turned 20 since this all started) years old and while I can't cross the globe to help her, I want to see what I can do about getting her story into more places than just her blog, in an effort to increase the scope of what she can do for the children she meets, and feeds, and nurses, on a daily basis. I'd put the link to her blog here but my computer is dead and I can't find it. There’s a young American girl in Uganda who has adopted 14 (at last count, I think) children and has founded an organization that feeds hundreds more. She’s 19 (may have turned 20 since this all started) years old and while I can’t cross the globe to help her, I want to see what I can do about getting her story into more places than just her blog, in an effort to increase the scope of what she can do for the children she meets, and feeds, and nurses, on a daily basis.
I’d put the link to her blog here but my computer is dead and I can’t find it.

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