Have a Heart, the art of compassion
Lets begin with a simple story that started a few years ago. It was a moment right after Thanksgiving week and I was out shopping for the holidays. I ran into a friend with her daughter. Both noticeably upset and very anxious. My friend had told me her husband could not find work and there would be a very difficult time to do Christmas this year much less even to pay bills.
Christmas is a magical time of year for me in so many ways. It promotes peace and giving and a united spirit. Its fun and beautiful for me . I throw up Christmas lights where ever there is space and I feel the need to decorate.
I have two closets dedicated to nothing but storage of Christmas decorations and the odd thing is I am Jewish. Who knew? This info is background for my story.
Quickly and to the point. I decided to use some of the decorations I no longer use and decorate my friends house for Christmas, then there was the joy of playing in the toy department as I got presents for the little girl and gifts for the parents as well.
You can't save everyone but you can one at a time. Not only did I become the Jewish Santa but also got the father an interview at a company that was hiring.
It was all magic, it was Christmas, it was the hopes of a new job and the knowing that I was able to do something for someone else.
The only caveat would be that my friend would have to pay the joy forward and every year find another family in need and so on and so on. That was one of the best Christmas moments for me.
But the reason and main point of this blog this time and all the time is my personal compassion for anyone that I can use my talents to help.
Why the need to save everyone, to make things better for someone, to basically care about someone other than myself?
Simple: Compassion!!
Through the years I have and continue to march for freedoms for my myself and my friends, raise money when I can for causes because I want to help. To simply think of someone else when I am out shopping and get a random gift.
The rewards from all these acts of compassion are impossible to express through this simple blog. This is what drives me on a daily bases, this is what fills my soul and takes me away from my own issues. This brings me family in so many forms and so many ways from all over, especially when my own family disappeared and I became an Adult orphan.
Compassion is what brought me to write these blogs so that in some way even more than I will ever know is my way to let people know I want them to see what things have happened in my own life that brought me such great joy.
Is it no wonder that the I want the people I care about to see what I see and experience what I do on a daily bases?
In the forms of inspiration, of motivation, of wanting to show whoever will listen the simplest way to know the power of the universe.
It's not complicated!
The universe knows of nothing but love and it shows me every day in the simple act of compassion.
When I listen to people say they have no power, I become the speaker to let them know they have the most power of anyone. To show and give the act of compassion.
In the wake of so many things we come across on a daily bases that seem so out of reach or hard to deal with, take it from my angels, from me and show someone compassion.
A simple act has been known to change lives, to change moments for people, to change hate to love, to change empathy to compassion.
My task for you and myself this week and always. Open a new door, Open a new window for someone because you might just see yourself at the door coming through and seeing out the window a better moment, a better place. A better life... ?
My simple act of compassion today is....
Live!- Live!-Live!