not everyone agrees
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008“Who do you think you are? You think you’re so special to go off to save the world and you don’t even do enough in your own back yard. Charity starts at home, you know.”
We just knew someone would say something along those lines at some stage. Didn’t make it hurt any the less when it finally happened though.
Rob was very hesitant about “going on tv”. Very Hesitant. In fact, at first he said, “No. We don’t want that kind of exposure, it’s not like we’re even doing anything particularly special and many people are giving their lives up to great causes every day. They are the ones who should be on television.”
But then we considered the fact that it’s not about us, not about what we feel comfortable with. And we figured if we were given such an opportunity to raise just one person’s awareness of the needs of others around the world, then perhaps we had a responsibility to use it. Never mind that we didn’t end up getting to say much about that at all. Doesn’t change that THAT was our hope as the makeup was brushed across our faces.
And now we’re wishing we hadn’t done it.
We don’t want people thinking that we think we are wonderful. Coz we’re not. We’re just one family, who has had a goal to give its children the experience of life-outside-our-privileged-world. And so that’s what we’re going to do. It’s true, that we will volunteer at a few places along the way – but that doesn’t make us exceptionally philanthropic. It’s just who we are. When we’re at home we help refugees settle in the country and take meals to families with new babies and we usually have so many kids around the house that being in an orphanage will not seem that unusual.
So, who do I think I am? Not someone special. Not someone wonderful. Fortunately, you don’t have to be special or wonderful in order to make a difference in the world. You don’t need to be perfect to make a little difference in someone’s life. You don’t have to have it all together to decide to do something good. We’ll make mistakes, but we can’t live in the negative. We’ve got to do the best with what we’ve been given.
We're in full swing getting ready for the Silent Auction.
Local church hall is booked.
way back when in the olden days air tickets were an impressive-looking document, with multiple pages and a cardboard outer shell
holiday scrapbooks opened with this visible proof that We Went On An Aeroplane
Of course, today ... 
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