Friday, November 23, 2007

serving together

Yesterday my family was blessed to go downtown to help serve at a Thanksgiving feast for the poor and homeless. We did not get to do as much work as we would have liked, as there were more volunteers than work, but we were happy to have been able to go.

It is such a blessing to serve together as a family. It helps to instill values with the children, allows us to share what we are passionate about with our kids. It allows them to see how to serve other people and to get the focus off of themselves. It helps our kids to see how truly blessed they are. It helps prepare the next generation to eventually step up and be the next wave of people helping people.

2 comments:

Happy Person said...

Helping and serving needy eople is one way we pay back to society for the gains that we obtained. It helps build meaning to our living in this world. We feel happy helping others and I believe is in our natural self. What quality is the help depends on how much we upgrade ourself. Therefore the better we improve ourself, the better we can serve others. Cheers
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silken said...

thanks for stopping in with your comment. I think it is so important for our children to learn this and what better way to learn than by watching and doing w/ mom and dad...