I forgot to post a Feel Good Friday at Helping Hands at First English yesterday, so let’s feel good today.
(About something. Anything. Please…)
These are the bags of groceries waiting to go out today, prepped with loving hands and hearts by our incredible volunteers.
We fed 363 people today.
But we also gave out more hugs than I can count. We took turns holding one another’s burdens, if even for a moment. We helped a neighbor make a plan to find housing, helped another neighbor get a phone, provided follow through to acquire mental heath care for another struggling neighbor, helped another neighbor get their laundry clean for an important appointment, and at the end of it all shared our extra produce with the mission.
While it feels like the world is broken, like the disconnect and divisiveness could just about make you lose hope, at Helping Hands we keep putting our heads down and looking for more ways to love one another.
We can all do this.
Thank God for Helping Hands and the people who make it go, and for every person and heart out there like it. I wish there could be one on every block—what a different world it would be.
If you’d like to help, the link is in the comments.
