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LIGHT UP
Monday Dec. 15, 2014
Around town, easiest method – kettles with someone ringing bells.
Drop off at food banks. They take cheques or credit cards.
Website visits and phone calls.
Just empty your wallet, and fill your heart.
Put more than your hand in handshakes with homeless people on street corners.
Leave a gift on someone’s doorstep.
Or cash in their mailbox.
Light up someone’s life.
You’ll light yours for sure.
Doing ATM transactions, awaiting my receipt, I often see a pile of them, left by those who didn’t remember or need to take those tiny ‘balance’ reminders. Reminding me of Christmas seasons when life was lean, cupboards were bare, I didn’t know how I would manage …
We CAN do something about it. If we all give up/give away something. Cash is easy, food is easy. Room at your table, room in your house … those are not.
Room in your heart?
Now you get it.
Are you running – empty or full?
Your tank …
Your heart …
Your plate …
Your wallet …
Your mind …
Your home …
Your refrigerator …
We’ve been there, have we not, from time to time – so numbed by our impossibility that we can’t see sunshine on the brightest of days?
If you’ve dodged those bullets … which seems improbable to me, then count yourself lucky, unscathed, unscarred (perhaps unable to see the reality many people face).
Problems without a season or a date.
Everyday issues for too many sad folks and their families.
You, and I – we can change that. Not for all, but for some.
Help one. Help two. Help one more.
You get the picture …
Mark Kolke
column written/ published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: -1C/15F, clear, light breeze – a mild day, really, for December but nippy just the same as windshields of frost on quiet streets are the silence, counterpoint to building traffic on Macleod Trail. Gusta frustrated that tasty bits frozen to ground can’t be snacked …
Reader feedback:
You hit it on the nose today dear. .... And changing how I feel is getting exhausting, but I'm told one should embrace change. Have a nice Xmas Mark.. SM, Kelowna,BC
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