With todays economy as bad as it is, there are many of us that are feeling the financial noose tightening around our necks. Personally, I am on tip-toe's on an old cardboard box that is perched on top of a rickety chair with only three legs and a rowdy bunch of kids running around it...the skin on my neck is chaffed and bleeding from my constant struggle to keep my head up. Can anyone relate? I don't make a big deal to anyone about how truly terrible things are for us right now, I have a clear perspective that as bad as it may be right now....it could be worse.... unfortunately HAS BEEN WORSE. But I am not giving up. I am a fighter. I am woman, hear me roar!!! LOL But I just have to vent right now. This morning my husband got up early and went to a local church that gives out food to the needy . Unfortunately the neighbor who had told us about it had given us the wrong time to be there. He was number 212 out of the 300 that they help. Slim pickings at the end of the line for sure, but we were just grateful for any help at all. I will admit that of course it is a little humbling to be in this place (okay, VERY HUMBLING) but hey, that's life. At least that's our life right now. So try and imagine how I felt when I got on cafemom today and read a mass personal message sent by the owner of one of my groups, asking for donations for her daughter to help pay for her cheerleading costume? Granted, the child is cute as a button and apparantly also very talented in handsprings at the tender age of FIVE. Being in All Star Cheer would just mean ever so much to her (yes, my voice IS dripping with sarcasm) but mommy didn't realize how much everything would cost. So she is wondering if we could all help out a little. According to her, if every one of her friends just donated $5 she would be able to buy the costume. WTF??????? There was over a hundred names on that list...at $5 bucks a pop...you do the math. I am not opposed to donating to a worthy cause, or for that matter even to  the dreams of a five year old cheer leader. What I am opposed to, is the insensitivity of people today. Or rather the LACK OF VISION.  We cannot help but see the suffering of people all around us. We need go no further than right here on the journal boards of cafemom to read about one of our sisters suffering in some way. I guess I am just really upset because there is TRUE need all around us. If we are going to donate to something or someone....how about we donate five bucks a pop to the family who is about to lose their house? Or the single mom who can't afford the gas to get to work each day. Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from our faltering economy. We need to re-evaluate the blessings of all we have, instead of always focusing on what we do not have. We need to appreciate the blessing of having a job. The blessing of having a roof over our heads. The blessing of being able to fill your house with food, or your car with gas...the blessing of HAVING a car. When will we stop looking at our own needs, and see the needs of others? When will we stop saying "Can you help me" and start saying "What can I do to help?"

Tags: money, faith, love, family, hope, mothers, daughters, life, happiness

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