Helping others is so humbling.......
So a couple of weeks ago I was invited by some great agents from Keller Williams Front Range Properties in Boulder to help with a weekend activity. I didn't have my boys for the weekend, so I was "Sure" I will do it. What were we going to do anyway, move some things, maybe pack some boxes, etc. Yeah, I am all about doing things like that.
What I had in store, I was not really grasping.....until I got there at "KARE for Kenya". My self and about 200 other amazing people.
We were going to provide 125,000 meals that were going to be shipped to Kenya the following Monday to help some people in real need survive another day. It got me to really think (Although I do that a lot) about how AMAZING my life is. Do I have trial and Tribulations......of course. But I can step back, take a breath, re-group my energy and take another step. But these people that we were helping do not have that luxury.
I heard that some people in Kenya only eat every 2-3 days. Think about that! After not eating for 6-7 hours we get cranky, weak and can be hard to be around.....these people do not eat for days. There were 13 tables of 12 people per table.
Our goal, to pack 36 bags of rice, vitamins and seasoning into one box. Each bag of rice has a serving size of 6 meals. Ok, that is cool,I thought to myself.....And we began.
But as I started stacking and loading boxes with food, I was thinking about small children who did not have a bowl of cereal like my sons do in the mornings, do not have scrambled eggs, toast, orange juice.
The teenage girl who can not go home to get something to eat when her stomach is growling and is feeling sick.
A mother who can't feed her children, not because she doesn't know what to make, but because she does not have anything to give them. Made my heart ache.
I think that we packed something like 56 boxes......just our table. Great job, but doesn't seem like enough.
This experience made me appreciate what this great life has offered me.
To that, I am going to bring my sons to do this so that they can get an understanding that just because that their friends have a DS or a certain video game, and they do not, and they fell like things are not fair, that they have a great life. If they truly want to see that life is "NOT" fair, take a look. You can stop that!!!! Stop feeling like life owes you something...If Life was fair, why do others have to suffer like this.
YES!!!!!!!
Helping others is so humbling....
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