You Can’t Save the World

I’m a softy, I cry about everything- good, bad, happy, sad.  I also want to rescue any and everything that needs rescued, people or animals it doesn’t matter.  If it were up to me, I would have a zoo at my house.  We have three cats,  two of them are because I rescued them.  Michael has told me on several occasions, ”Ginny, you can’t save the world.”  I know I cannot save the world; however, I do believe I can change the world one person at a time.   Recently I reconnected with someone from my past.  I discovered that something I did over twenty years ago had a major impact on that person’s life.  It is humbling to know that God took something so small and made it into something  amazing.

Something else is also amazing, Michael is now changing the world one person at a time.  He has witnessed an issue and has decided to try and help.  Right now his outreach is small, but he has big ideas for the future.  I am so proud of  him for stepping up.  Most people would never consider being involved in the lives of these people.  Little things make a difference and little things change lives, even if it is only one person at a time.

Add a comment September 25, 2009

Frogger

The funniest thing happened to me at Wal-Mart.  I was pushing the shopping cart out of the store and started to cross the main road in the parking lot.  I noticed a big tree frog in the road, so I stopped and tapped his butt with my shoe to get him to cross the road with me.  Instead he jumped through the wholes in the bottom of the cart and sat there.  So I pushed the cart and the frog across the road.  I started heading down the aisle and stopped to let frog into the plant filled median where he would be safe.  I tapped his back and he hoped into my diaper bag.  I tapped him again and he hoped onto my chest.  I tapped him again and he finally hoped into the median.  I took pictures of the frog hitching a ride with me so I could show the kids.  When I got home I told them the story and showed them the pictures, we laughed and laughed.

Add a comment September 19, 2009

What’s the Big Deal?

Tonight I was watching the evening news (I never watch the news) and there were a lot of opinions about President Obama’s Address to Students.   Most of the opinions featured were from parents who were strongly against it.  One of the parents stated that the President should not force his political views down the throats of the students.  Another said, the students should take it in and then make up their own minds.  I do not share the same political views as President Obama, but I do think parents over-reacted.   I don’t understand what the big deal was about. 

I did not watch the entire address, I only saw bits and pieces.  However, I did look up the actual speech.  I do not think he said anything inappropriate.  He encouraged the kids to stay in school, to set goals and go after those goals.  Parents should be excited that President Obama is sending a positive message to their children.  The sad thing is that many (not all) of the parents protesting his speech, are the exact same parents who allow their children to watch television programs that are demoralizing.  Or they are the same parents who teach their children that it is perfectly fine to discriminate against someone because of their race, sexual preference, gender, disabilities, inabilities, and/or political opinions.  Isn’t that ironic.   

With all that said- I am so proud to live in America, where you are encouraged to have an opinion and freely voice it.

1 comment September 9, 2009

Answered Prayers

One of the most incredible things happened this past week.  Some of the most amazing people you will ever meet adopted a beautiful little boy.  Adoption has been something they have been talking about  and prayed about quite some time.  So they completed the classes and waited and waited and waited for a child to be placed with them.   Then they got the call they had been anxiously awaiting.  Literally overnight their home grew from three to four.   This could not have happened to a more deserving family.  This past week prayers were answered; those of a family who wanted to share their love with another child and those of a little boy who wanted the love of a family.

1 comment September 7, 2009