I'd pull a "I Am Legend" and hide but I don't think I'd be very good at it.

I'm all for not fighting and staying alive.  works for me.

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Tonight as I'm laying in bed going through my normal routine of checking my facebook/myspace/etc. I suddenly realized how selfish and lazy I've been lately.

Throughout my teenage years I have always been involved in some kind of volunteering and/or school club. I'm not an over achiever in any way. I've never been the person who was involved in every sport and every club possible but I was always active in something...especially some kind of volunteering. I may suck at sports but I have a pretty big heart if I do say so myself.

I'm a busy person. I work full time, go to school part time, do a couple extra things to make money in the free time that I do have, and I am really involved at my church but everything I do, except church activities, is based on me. Even the church activities aren't enough... those are people who I care about and have relationships with...it's not much of a reach for me to want to spend time with them. Make sense?

Lately, I've been searching for some sort of volunteering that I could at least get involved in on a once a month basis and haven't gotten too far in my search...haven't done enough searching.
I'm doing some volunteering with the MS Walk near the end of April but I feel like that's more for me than it is for MS. Not that MS isn't important but it's not something that my heart really longs to get involved with...my heart doesn't break for it.

So tonight I was looking at To Write Love On Her Arms, (RED), and ONE... looking for ways to get involved and the tears just started flowing. That's what my heart breaks for.

poverty.

Every 3 seconds a child dies from extreme poverty.
And we complain about the car we drive? How we need new clothes? The restaurant we eat at? The house we live in? How we don't like the food on our plate?

Feel it yet?
Selfishness. Ungratefulness. Shame.

broken people.

17 million Americans suffer from depression.
2 out of 3 are never treated.
Untreated depression is the leading cause of suicide.
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among young people.

That much pain? That much feeling of unworthiness?
A complete loss of hope.
I can't even begin to imagine that pain.
It breaks my heart.



Love is the movement.
That's the slogan for TWLOHA.
That should be the slogan for your life. I know that might sound cliche or maybe even lame to you but for real...People are suffering all around us and we're completely oblivious to both their physical and spiritual needs.

We need to stop focusing so much on ourselves and start focusing on those around us. So many of society's problems could be erased if only we weren't so selfish.

Look around you... do you see the brokenness?