Don't Give In to Giver's Fatigue

While lying in bed this morning waiting for the chance to press snooze again, I was thinking about the earthqauke in Pakistan and parts of India. You see, the sad thing about this earthquake is the fact that its happened at a time when so many other natural disasters are occurring all over the world. There was the Indian Ocean Tsunami last Christmas, Hurricane Katrina, and now Hurricane Wilma which is in full swing as I write. The thing is, this earthqauke in Pakistan has killed over 80,000 people...men, women, children, 80,000. That's 1/3rd of the amount of people killed in the tsunami last year, but its 61x more people killed in Hurricaine Katrina, 61x more!!! So many people are injured, hungry, homeless, and they are just beginning to help them. I'm glad for that, and I keep on thinking there is just so much need in the world that sometimes it seems too hopeless, or it feels so impossible to truly make a difference. I want to be able to hug every child separated from its parents, feed every hungry mouth I can, and then I realize, I can't, and I feel discouraged.

But this morning I thought, "self, don't be discouraged, get up, get out into the world and do what you can". I needed to remind myself that there is always something we can do to make a difference. Sometimes it feels like just a drop in the bucket handing over my pocket change to the Red Cross or Compassion Canada, but then I realized that I was looking at the drop in comparison to the bucket instead of looking at how many other drops are there to fill it (if that makes sense...try and follow my odd-ball way of thinking)!!! The bucket of need in the world around us is HUGE right now, but the good thing is that we have an entire world of people to fill it with their individual drops, and it can be done!

So today, I felt that I really needed to encourage everyone NOT TO GIVE IN TO GIVER'S FATIGUE!! Keep on giving, keep on going, and keep on believing that a difference can and will be made through grassroots individuals like yourselves, and you will start to see it happen. So, here are some links to charities that are supporting disaster relief, and if any of you feel like adding your drop to the bucket...haveit!!

Cheers.

https://www.paypaq.com/redcross/en/
http://www.makepovertyhistory.ca/e/home.php
www.one.org