Knitting for Charity
One of my favorite expressions is "good from bad" and I always try to keep that in mind. A bad thing is when someone is sick or homebound or is so anxious that they need to keep busy all the time just to maintain their grip on the anxiety. A good thing would be to put that time to use and, in the process, help yourself and someone else.
With this thought in mind, I began looking at blogs related to charitable work that anyone can do and which would serve both purposes stated previously. I came across a truly interesting site called Knitting for Charity. The woman who runs the site offers free knitting instructions for charitable knitting projects as well as ideas about using yarn you didn't even realize you had.
Another blog I visited was Charity Christmas cards, The Cancer Blog where they have a number of great ideas to help you participate in charitable efforts and give the gift of hope to others. They linked me to a site called Cheap Therapy and I definitely liked that one. Making something to show you care for someone else is, to my mind, a better gift than something that can be bought in a store. Buying gifts isn't really giving anything other than something like a money exchange. There's nothing of you in the gift.
Then there's 25 Things for Charity where the group has asked for a self-commitment of making something for charity in the next 12 months. As the site indicates, there are no rules and quotes Thomas Edison as having said, "Hell, there are no rules here-we're trying to accomplish something." What a great idea and they invite you to check in and let them know your progress and what you've decided to make or have made already. Truly a charitable effort that lasts all year long and provides the benefits for much longer than that, I'm sure.
Do you think that people deserve to be rewarded for their charitable works in some way? I don't mean that they should receive money or cars or whatever, but something that permits them to carry on their good work or to increase it. Strengthen the Good uses the power of blogs to communicate about special people like Susan Tom, an adoptive mother of 11 special needs children who was given a new home by Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Wonder how many bedrooms there are now and how many more Susan will need.
Homes are a wonderful "gift" for anyone and one of my favorite charities has to be Habitat for Humanity where everyone pitches in to build homes for needy families in communities around the world. What more could you want: good people, good work, physical exercise and an incredible sense of accomplishment all rolled up into one neat package.
I do consider charity to be therapy because it allows us to help those in need. What we get in return is far more than we will ever give, so if you've got some time on your hands and you'd like to quell that anxiety or tone down that stress, see what you can do.
Related Topics: Shake Holiday Gift Anxiety, Survive the Holidays After the Loss of a Loved One
With this thought in mind, I began looking at blogs related to charitable work that anyone can do and which would serve both purposes stated previously. I came across a truly interesting site called Knitting for Charity. The woman who runs the site offers free knitting instructions for charitable knitting projects as well as ideas about using yarn you didn't even realize you had.
Another blog I visited was Charity Christmas cards, The Cancer Blog where they have a number of great ideas to help you participate in charitable efforts and give the gift of hope to others. They linked me to a site called Cheap Therapy and I definitely liked that one. Making something to show you care for someone else is, to my mind, a better gift than something that can be bought in a store. Buying gifts isn't really giving anything other than something like a money exchange. There's nothing of you in the gift.
Then there's 25 Things for Charity where the group has asked for a self-commitment of making something for charity in the next 12 months. As the site indicates, there are no rules and quotes Thomas Edison as having said, "Hell, there are no rules here-we're trying to accomplish something." What a great idea and they invite you to check in and let them know your progress and what you've decided to make or have made already. Truly a charitable effort that lasts all year long and provides the benefits for much longer than that, I'm sure.
Do you think that people deserve to be rewarded for their charitable works in some way? I don't mean that they should receive money or cars or whatever, but something that permits them to carry on their good work or to increase it. Strengthen the Good uses the power of blogs to communicate about special people like Susan Tom, an adoptive mother of 11 special needs children who was given a new home by Extreme Makeover Home Edition. Wonder how many bedrooms there are now and how many more Susan will need.
Homes are a wonderful "gift" for anyone and one of my favorite charities has to be Habitat for Humanity where everyone pitches in to build homes for needy families in communities around the world. What more could you want: good people, good work, physical exercise and an incredible sense of accomplishment all rolled up into one neat package.
I do consider charity to be therapy because it allows us to help those in need. What we get in return is far more than we will ever give, so if you've got some time on your hands and you'd like to quell that anxiety or tone down that stress, see what you can do.
Related Topics: Shake Holiday Gift Anxiety, Survive the Holidays After the Loss of a Loved One
1 Comments:
As a volunteer for the past several years, I must agree with you, that you receive in return at least twice what you give. You receive the Thank You's from the organization where you volunteer and also your own satisfaction knowing you have done your very best that day. Any time that I am able to honestly give myself a Thank You is very important to me. As with many other persons, I am sure, meeting my own goals, knowing that I have done the best that I could do for that day, is the strongest medicine available and the price is right.
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