Today’s Good Deed

I don’t know this woman from Adam, but I and a couple of other bloggers and internet types are sharing her story in the hopes of helping her out.  Her, and her children.  My viewpoint is, if you only help those you know, then all you’re really doing is limiting the circle of people you can know.  Limiting the circle of your influence and thus, ultimately, the people who are some day going to be in a position to help you.  Dieter Uchtdorf observed that while “the what informs, the why transforms.”  And the why of helping anyone is always the same, or should be: to pay it forward.  Regardless of what form Deity takes in your life, whether you conceive of it as a God, or Gods, Mother Nature or higher reasoning, Deity has already blessed you.  That you have the ability to sit here, right now, reading this is a blessing in just about every respect.

Which is also, I suspect, why President Uchtdorf counsels us too that “by becoming the answer to someone’s prayer, we often find the answers to our own.”  All too often, we limit our participation in the world around us: out of doubt, or fear, or simple greed.  But here’s a woman, a family, who needs your help and for whom your Starbucks run fun money could mean the difference between life and death.

Let’s be the change, people.