A Life of Roses

Tonight, Charlie Rose spoke with Eli Wieselon PBS.  The pain, even after all these years from losing his much beloved father in Buchenwald Concentration Camp is still so evident.  I've read a few of his books, and his honesty dances across the pages.   Those words - his words can make me cry when I read them.  

It seems  that reading those many words is not enough to understand the whole of the Holocaust, but his few words can march through your heart and leave such big impressions!  Who we are in this world must be learned from the wise people of this world.  Some of the lessons are painful, but they can in the end give so many blossoms that open the heart into some of the most beautiful roses of life.

Life is Passing

The holiday has passed with more of a whimper than a great deal of joy. My husband and are watching family members go down to these economic troubles. Actually if I’m honest, it began when this family member had a terrible accident that robbed him of any ability to work even a part time job at the age of 32.

How does a person help when you yourself on the edge? You give, and give, and give again…but mostly you listen and hug and pray. And if I’m honest it is happening all around us here in Michigan. Silently, lives are slipping away into poverty and it’s happening to all age groups. My own church is talking about helping with mortgage payments, but how long can we and others help as many as really needs help?

As long as it takes.

Change Your World

It's the season for hopes, wishes and dreams. That time of year in America where we get lots of "stuff"and food, but not necessarily what we really might want or dream for in this year of war, and world hunger.

My wish list is simple:
- For an end to the pain in the Middle East.
- For enough to feed a hungry world.
- And finally for the children around the world a childhood.

We can do it - donate yearly, or more often to help stamp out hunger.
- VOTE too many in the US especially don't vote. You think your vote won't count
but unless you actually vote - IT WON'T!
- Help somewhere in your town.

Be a facilitator of change in your own world.