Sponsor a Child...Change their Life...and Yours!

I decided to join the other bloggers sharing their "Compassion" stories. Hopefully it will encourage someone out there to change a child's life...and their own...by the gift of sponsorship with just $32 a month. This gift may seem "small" in our well-off world where we often spend more on things most people in other parts of the world would consider pure luxuries. This "small" gift sent to a child's homeland through Compassion helps provide schooling, opportunities to learn about Jesus, food and medical care. It lets a child know there is hope for a better life, that someone outside their world CARES about them. It teaches them that GOD CARES about them. Visit http://www.shaungroves.com/shlog/comments/stories_of_compassion_international_its_your_turn
to read Compassion stories other bloggers have shared and SHARE YOUR OWN. If you haven't already, let them INSPIRE you to share some of your blessings with a child that has so little!

We sponsor a girl in Colombia named Daniela, have since she was 3. She'll be 11 in June. We were given the chance to sponsor her after the young man that Rob had sponsored for a long time aged out of the program. It's wonderful to get her letters and pictures...she loves to draw. It's especially nice now that she can write them herself. For a long time someone in the project wrote them for her.

Go to http://www.compassion.com/ today and change a child's life...and yours! You'll be glad you did, and you won't miss that $1 a day, but it will mean SO much to the child you sponsor!

WOW! Visit this post on Shaun Groves blog to SEE how Compassion changed the life of a young woman named Prossy. Her future children won't need their services. http://www.shaungroves.com/shlog/comments/compassion_international_uganda_christines_answer_meet_prossy/

Sponsorship really DOES change the life of a child :) Now AND for future generations!

A House is a House is a House...

A house is a house is a house - - until love comes through the door, that is.

And love intuitively goes around sprinkling that special brand of angel dust that transforms a house into a very special home for very special people: our families.

Money, of course, can build a charming house, but only love can furnish it with a feeling of home.

Duty can pack an adequate sack lunch, but love may decide to tuck a little love note inside.

Money can provide a television set, but love controls it and cares enough to say no and take the

guff that comes with it.

Obligation sends the children to bed on time, but love tucks the covers in around their necks and passes out kisses and hugs (even to teenagers!).

Obligation can cook a meal, but love embellishes the table with a potted ivy trailing around slender candles.

Duty writes many letters, but love tucks a joke or a picture or a fresh stick of gum inside.

Compulsion keeps a sparkling house.

But love and prayer stand a better chance of producing a happy family.

Duty gets offended quickly if it isn't appreciated. But love learns to laugh a lot and to work for the sheer joy of doing it.

Obligation can pour a glass of milk, but quite often love will add a little chocolate.

James S. HewettIllustrations Unlimited

(And THANKS to bob@seriousgeeks.com of Longmont CO for the encouraging messages he sends daily. This great post about "love at home" was included included in the one he sent on Feb 9, 2008. Contact him if you'd like to be added to his mailing list.)