Do Talk with Strangers

Can you imagine being inside a hospital on Mother's day with your sick child?  A child so ill they have been admitted and are in a hospital bed? The picnic, BBQ or event the car ride with screaming siblings would be better than being in the hospital. Along with friends we wanted to put smiles on some mothers faces this year. We coordinated with a hospital administrator and made something amazing happen! When you work on a project, it is fascinating who steps forwards to support and who does not. This week, the most surprising donor for this great Mother's Day project our Arbonne team is doing for UPMC Children's Hospital is someone I DO NOT KNOW ! She is the cousin of someone I BARELY know. This angel has gifted not one, not two, but THREE times. And that does not mean she gave $60. No, $60 was ONE donation! $40 was another. And $50 was a third! And a forth $20. Yes. A random stranger donated  $210 dollars to help us get closer to our goal of 315 (the number of beds...

What happens when the sun shines? You see more colors, you feel more radiance, and people smile more at each other. And today was no exception. I am almost unsure if I can even write about today - for what happened is not short of a miracle, yet, I also can not share the secrets of a man's history without permission. Nor do I think I can share the legality of asking a public defender to look into a situation. So I am left just being vague. Which doesn't give much of a story to read about. Yet today I find myself humbled by being a messenger of God, this is the only way I can describe how I feel right now. To have had the power of connecting to one man who needs help. A marine who needed to be heard. A brother watching his sibling dying in the hospital. A father grieving his murdered son. A man who need a glimmer of hope and a desire to be 'seen' after the world kicked him into a hole. After loosing his son and his father months apart. A man who felt the pain of angu...