What can *you* do to help?

So this last weekend when we were in Atlanta, as we were leaving we noticed that not 20 yards from the fun of the parade were at least 10 people who were homeless sleeping on the cold hard ground, one in nothing more than a tarp! It was a sobering moment to see that as we complained of our hands being cold (it was 36*) and being hungry...it was 3 hours after our pancake breakfast) there were people who the world had forgotten, who had probably forgotten about themselves and who they may have once been, sleeping in the fridgid temperatures. It bothered me for days. I wanted to do something and I *AM!*

I am organizing my first annual Blanket Drive for the Homeless. I am making a flier and will be passing them on mailboxes in our 3 big cluster neighborhoods this weekend as well as my mom posting one at her job and Brian at his...then this morning I made mention of it on an Amazon forum and I was asked to add blankets and sleeping bags to it, and I have now gotten NINE blankets and a sleeping bag (a nice coleman one and really nice new blankets) from complete strangers!!! I was overcome with joy and emotion this morning and humbled to tears! I cannot believe there is still such a human spirit out there! I am hoping that this christmas there will be people touched who thought that Christmas was just another day the world forgot them. I cannot explain the happiness in my heart!!!

So what can YOU do? Can you adopt people in Nursing homes? Donate to Toys for Tots? Donate a coat, or work a soup kitchen? What can you do to make someone else, a complete stranger, feel loved this year? Please, I ask that if nothing more, you say a prayer for those less fortunate. I mean, how many of us are a months pay away from where they are?

May your day be filled with the true meaning of Christmas!

Robin

also this is a direct link to my amazon wish list if anyone wants to donate a blanket!
http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/EO1IBOQ2K5M1

May God Bless you all!