![]() GIVING IS A QUESTION OF JUSTICE – Most of us know that working hard doesn’t guarantee success in our efforts. How do you feel about that statistic? Giving helps build a world where we are ALL safer, healthier, and happier.ħ. GIVING HELPS CREATE THE WORLD WE WANT TO LIVE IN – There’s about a 10% chance that a newborn child will be one of the 700 million living on less than $2 per day. It’s very possible to give without diverting resources from our own education or health programs and with little impact to our own quality of life.Ħ. If every American citizen contributed just $3 each, we could come up with a billion dollars of aid. In the U.S., we have significant resources at our disposal. WE HAVE THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES TO COMBAT POVERTY – Hundreds of millions of people live on less than $1.90 a day. Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.5. I experience myself as overflowing, spending, alive, hence as joyous. This experience of heightened vitality and potency fills me with joy. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. "Giving is the highest expression of potency. Not because he was rich or influential but because of the simple actions he took to help others in so many different ways.Īs I get back into my car and make the long drive back home, I feel refreshed, rejuvenated and ready to take on our next charity mission. At his funeral, hundreds showed up and the flags were lowered across the state. I always go back to my Father, a self-made man with a sixth grade education and unending love for his country and community. My hope is that these actions will pay it forward for these children and my son and that when I have left this world one of this children will remember these actions and reciprocate in an even greater manner. But it also brings sadness when you see a young child with eyes that show the sadness of a broken soul or finding out parents tried to take back what you bought their children so they could get cash back.īut, when children remember you and give you big hugs, all is right in the world. The gratefulness of children, their beautiful smiles, goofiness and laughs that just melt your heart. It has opened my eyes to the exponential, long-term diffference you make in peoples lives through simple, small actions. Running a charity has been one of the most fulfilling missions of my life. But what sadly has not changed is the need its deeper and greater than ever. Its a special day, its the10th year of our charity and what started with one charity service has expanded to 10 different programs. My mission today is that of my charity foundation, M2H Charities, and our annual Santa's Angels event to buy winter coats and clothes for 50 needy elementary school aged children. ![]() Its going to be a 600 mile drive day up to Deming and back to Phoenix. Off I drive, headed off to my hometown of Deming New Mexico where they have the highest unemployment, pregnancy rate and poverty rate in the state. But, somehow I drag myself into the shower, get dressed and drink a few cups of coffee. I should have rescheduled this event and had time to rest with all the travel I have been doing.
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