I read an interesting article on CNN this morning about a woman (granted, the wife of a legislator) in Florida who, through an act of kindness, is doing something on her own to help deal with the current situation we all find ourselves in together. Chene Thompson is letting Henrietta Hughes and her son, homeless and living in a car, live in her vacant home that is not selling in the depressed Florida housing market, until they can get on their feet.
The article got me thinking. While most of us don't have an extra, empty house lying around to donate the use of to someone who's in need, there must be plenty of opportunities for us to help each other through these times, if only we look for them. It could be helping someone learn a new trade, it could be mentoring a student in need, it could be running a food drive to help the local food bank (our office is doing that right now), it could be helping someone find a job when you don't have to, it could be just listening to someone who needs a sounding board to figure out the next step, it could be providing clothing to someone down on their luck who needs to do to a job interview and be dressed "right", it could be any number of things.
We've become so used to depending on and waiting on the government, in many cases, to "fix things" for us that we forget that this country was founded on fixing things for ourselves.
Isn't it time that we remember that? Shouldn't we all be giving each other a helping hand, rather than waiting for someone else to do it?
What have you done to help fix this problem and help your fellow man or woman through it?
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