#helping people :)

[always-coffee]

Coraline Raffle for a Good Cause

Do you want to own a one-of-a-kind, signed copy of @neil-gaiman's Coraline? Do you also want to help people? (The proceeds go to various things, such as food banks and giving coats to kids in need.)

Well, @linda-from-the-bird-site is having a raffle! Tickets are the price of a fancy coffee, and the edition of Coraline is beautiful--and there is a gorgeous pen to boot!

Check it out!

[catastrophicalcat]

I want to post this again because it made me so happy. Look at Bruce!!! Helping people!!!

[pratchettquotes]

"And Mrs. Earwig," said Mistress Weatherwax, her voice sinking to a growl, "Mrs. Earwig tells her girls it's about cosmic balances and stars and circles and colors and wands and...and toys, nothing but toys!" She sniffed. "Oh, I daresay that's all very well as decoration, somethin' nice to look at while you're workin', somethin' for show, but the start and finish, the start and finish, is helpin' people when life is on the edge. Even people you don't like. Stars is easy, people is hard."

She stopped talking. It was several seconds before birds began to sing again.

"Anyway, that's what I think," she added in the tones of someone who suspects that she might have gone just a bit further than she meant to.

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

[zee-rambles]

Some WIPS I had sitting around since August that I never got around to finishing because school. May come back when I have the time to complete them…but for right now. I just needed some wholesome stuff after all the angst I’ve been drawing…

[bonesashesglass]

Please donate if you can, this family is nearing their goal, please keep the momentum going <3

[momentsbeforemass]

Impact

“You can’t stick your hand in the trash barrel without getting your cuff dirty.”

This was one of the things my grandfather said to me when I was a child.

One that really didn’t make sense to me until I was older. Until I understood his point, about the impact that the people around us have on us.

So what kind of people do you want around you?

I don’t mean characteristics, or labels, or demographics. I mean, how do you want them to impact you?

Because whether we realize it or not, the people around us are having an impact on us.

For me, I’d like people around me to lift me up. To help me live the Faith. To encourage me. To help me pick up the pieces when things fall apart.

People who help me be the best possible me, the me that God made me to be.

And you’re thinking, “that’s sounds great, I wish people would do that for me.”

So what do we do about it?

If that’s what you and I want, then there’s one way to get it. It’s counterintuitive. But it’s what Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel,

“Give and gifts will be given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will be poured into your lap.

For the measure with which you measure will in return be measured out to you.”

Which means what? If you and I want the people around us to lift us up. If we want the people around us to help us live our faith. We don’t have to wait.

In fact, we can’t wait. We have to be the ones who start it. With the people around us.

We have to be the ones who lift them up. Who help them live the Faith. Who encourage them. Who help them pick up the pieces when things fall apart.

If we’re following Jesus’ lead on this, then we have to start it.

By helping them become the ones that we want to have around us. Which they will be. When we help them become who God made them to be.

That’s the secret. We can change everything.

By helping the people around us become who God made them to be.

Today’s Readings

[justgotabolished]

HELP PALESTINIANS

[killieweegie]

That's what I am

[domwho11]

Please reblog and donate if at all possible. Thanks

[youchangedmedestiel]

Hello dear friends! ❤🤍🖤💚

🍉I am Mahmoud Ayyad, a Palestinian from the besieged and destroyed Gaza 😭😭, coming from an extended family of young children, women and elderly people ❤❤ who have been suffering😭😭 for 300 difficult days from an aggressive war.

Our lives are harsh because we lack all the basic necessities of life. Everything has become scarce and unattainable. There is no food, no water, no medicine.

So, I ask you to help me keep my family safe and alive, especially after we had lost all our sources of livelihood.Please do not leave my family to struggle and suffer these difficult days alone. You can support my campaign by donating whatever you can or by sharing my posts to reach others who can help us survive the war to safety and peace. You are helping the lives of many people with your small contribution. Every donation makes a difference in our very difficult lives. But this is a legitimate campaign and has been checked by 90-ghost.

https://gofund.me/31c5cbe3

[educationaldm]

Something wholesome.

[always-coffee]

Pssst, hey, you. Do you want a very cool copy of @neil-gaiman's Coraline, plus some other goodies?

Well, you're in luck! @linda-from-the-bird-site is having a raffle, which benefits the homeless:

You can snag tickets for the price of a coffee, potentially get some awesome swag, and do some good. That's a win/win/win!

[intelligentchristianlady]

Spread the Word

"The White House today announced that it has awarded nearly $454 billion in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, including more than 56,000 projects across more than 4,500 communities across the nation. Those include fixing more than 165,000 miles of roads and more than 9,400 bridges and improving more than 450 ports and 300 airport terminals. It has funded more than 1,400 drinking water and wastewater projects and projects to replace up to 1.7 million toxic lead pipes, as well as more than 8,000 low- and zero-emission buses. It has funded 95 previously unfunded Superfund projects to clean up contaminated sites. It has improved the electrical grid and funded 12,000 miles of high-speed internet infrastructure, and exposed internet junk fees.  

"The White House explained that this investment is making it cheaper to install clean energy technology and lowering families’ monthly energy bills, and highlighted today the available rebates to enable people to take advantage of the new technologies."

– HCR, May 13, 2024

People need to know about this. And vote Blue. 

[sparksinthenight]

Just have the 🍉 playlist playing in the background. Hopefully we can help some families.

You need to have the YouTube volume at least halfway up. That means that the volume button on the video needs to be set to at least halfway up. But you can turn the volume of your device all the way down, that’s fine. That means that the volume button that is in the corner or settings of your laptop or controlled by physical buttons or the settings of your tablet or phone can be turned all the way down. Watch each video all the way to the end. If you like and leave comments, especially comments that are 9 words or longer, that shows the video to more people. You don’t have to be on the YoouTube tab, you can be on another tab with the videos playing in the background. Hopefully together we can help these families.