Lately I have been really thinking about how truly fotunate i am to live in such an amazing country. I am so fortunate to where I don't have to worry about how i'm going to find the money to pay for clothes, food, and shelter. After the 8.9 earthquake in Japan struck, it made me really realize that we need to help. We sometimes are greedy with what we have and aren't the best at helping others around the world. I was amazed at my community came together last year during the Nashville Flood and helped strangers get their lives and homes back to together.
The reason I chose this for the thought of the week was obviously due to the quakes in Asia. Please do what you can to help these troubles souls. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers as this tragic event continues to break apart families, homes, and communities.
We are “to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to provide for the widow, to dry up the tear of the orphan, to comfort the afflicted, whether in this church, or in any other, or in no church at all..”
“Not only by precept did Jesus teach, but also by example. . . He stretched forth his hand that others might be lifted. . . Unaltered is the divine command to succor the weak and lift up the hands which hang down and strengthen the feeble knees. Each of us has the charge to be. . . a doer. . . lifter. . . There are those within the sphere of our own influence who, with outstretched hands, cry out: ‘Is there no balm in Gilead…?’ Each of us must answer”
(Thomas S. Monson, “With Hand and Heart,” Ensign, Jan 1995, 2)
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