Help A Neighbor

Help A Neighbor

Help a neighbor

When my father passed away two years ago, it created a great hardship on my mother. She had lost her main source of support and with her job not being the best, she was struggling to make ends meet. She would come home from work, collapse in exhaust only to get up and have to do it all again the next day. She began to dread winter, because she knew it could mean having to also spend an unknown amount of time shoveling the driveway to ensure her arrival to work on time. However, this was perhaps the most touching thing that continued into a second year that my neighbors ever could do. After a big snow storm, my mother was getting all set to go out and fight the elements when she looked outside and saw the neighbor's 17 year old son shoveling our driveway. This one-time help was more than she ever could have wanted, however, when it happened again last winter, that's when she realized that neighbors DO care. Even if it's so little as helping out by shoveling a driveway, do it. Offer to help carry groceries in if they seem to be struggling. Neighbors helping neighbors is a beautiful way to help those less fortunate.

Whatever you do this winter and all year long, take into consideration those less fortunate. Donate to a cause whenever you are able to, help a friend, neighbor or stranger out if you have the means to. When people start showing they care, others can begin to feel hope for themselves. Even if they've been down for a long time.