In this holiday season as I sit in my warm home my mind drifts back
Into time when I was a homeless teenager walking through stiff cold
frozen snow trying to stay moving while staying warm and anonymous.
Children of the streets are unwanted ignored but also feared by the
majority of every day citizens running around dealing with their everyday
chores. These children have very limited if any resource's at anytime but
winter is especially brutal to them. Nobody loved me or cared about me
personally and that wasn't grandiose in reality the small kindness shown me then will always be the light that kept me hopeful and living another day. I walked around hungry cold and very lonely except the accational loving person who would give me a meal or something else I needed.
I am very thankful to have come out of that time as well as I have but realize that there is still such a need in these children due to the fact they have no shelter
or other help because they are on the run.
I wish I could help all of them but it takes a team effort and the awareness that
the problem exists. Please be caring this season with any extra love that you
have and give to stand up for kids (link on my about me page) and it will
help minimize the despair the children feel this year.
If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach. |