"How I could use $100 to make the World a Better Place? I have no idea".
Posted: Friday, January 04, 2008
by Kathy Somers
I do not think that the world is going to change for the better anytime soon. What might be the worse problem facing the world today? In one word, Evil! The only way that the world is going to improve is if everyone joins in.
To make the world a better place to live in it should start at home. Treat your husband or wife with love and respect, and that love will rub off onto your children and their children.
If each family taught Love in their home that would definitely be a good place to start making a difference in this world.
I am still thinking about how I could use $100 to make this world a better place to live in and hopefully by the end of writing this article I will have came up with one. In the meantime I have a few suggestions of my own that could help the world.
Smile - it will make others smile also.
Help - open a door for someone, if someone drops a book pick it up for them. There are all sorts of ways that a person can help a little each day.
Pray - for those that are so consumed with hate that their hearts will find love and compassion for others.
Give - there are millions of children all over the world that need a child sponsor, and there are children probably right in your own town. There are so many ways that you can give, just follow your heart and you will give the right way for the right reasons.
Volunteer - nothing is more important to God than using your time in helping others. Whether it be volunteering to look after your friend's children for a couple of hours while she has to go to the doctor, or volunteering at the nearest hospital, food kitchen or at a homeless shelter for example.
Read - read to your children, bible stories or children stories. This will teach them that there is another world that they can enjoy and this will help them greatly when it's time to go to school. You never know where it will lead.
Clean-up - if you see a trash can use it, pick up an old piece of paper that is on the ground and put it in the trash. If everyone picked up one piece of litter once a day can you imagine how clean the world would be?
Turn off the vehicle - if you are waiting in a car while your wife/husband is in the grocery store, don't leave your vehicle running (unless it's cold outside). Save the ozone layer a bit.
Plant a Tree - there are so many trees being cut down today, lets replace some of them.
Listen - to somebody that needs someone to talk to.
Give Hugs - they are free.
Those were just a few of the things that I can think of off the top of my head that would definitely make the world a better place to live in.
I still can not think of what I could do to help the world be a better place with $100, it is such an easy question but so hard to answer. How can $100 dollars help the world?
To tell you the truth I don't know. If I were allowed to have $100 for each person or organization I want to help, this would be an easier question to answer. But since I only get $100 to do the entire job, it baffles me.
As I took a coffee break from typing on my computer, I went outside and sat down on our back step, sipping away on my coffee and breathing that beautiful, clean, cold, Canadian winter fresh air and I looked up to the sky as I always do and God gave me an answer to the $100 question.
There is a passage in the Bible where Jesus fed a multitude of people with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fish.
Matthew 14:15-21 (The New King James Version)
15 When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food."
16 But Jesus said to them "They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat."
17 And they said to Him, "We have here only five loaves and two fish."
18 He said, "Bring them here to Me."
19 Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
20 So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.
21 Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
After remembering this passage it came to me what to do with the $100. I would give it to Jesus and let him tell my heart what to do with it. He fed thousands with a little, so I can only imagine what he could do with $100.
I wish I had of thought of this idea myself, but I guess God talks to us in different ways and at different times. Now that I have this idea planted into my heart, I am going to use my own funds and take exactly $100, use it the way my heart tells me to. I want to share with you everything that I have learned and where it directed me. I will post it in my comments area below when the time comes.
My decision on what I did with $100.00:
I ordered the Billy Graham Magazine "Decision" and sent it to Ambassadors of China, Sudan, Iraq, Afganistan and Turkey....
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More commentsWell I may as well tell you and everyone else that reads my article....I sent the Magazines to the Ambassadors of China, Sudan, Iraq, Afganistan, and Turkey..........hopefully someone will be touched by reading something in the magazine, even if it's only someone sitting in a waiting in a waiting room at there offices. I addressed the magazines right to them personally. and I added it to be a gift From: Jesus........i could have used my name, but there not from me, there from him. And the money left over from the 100 dollars which was 10 dollars I donated it to BGEA. I usally donate money to them when we can afford to. I really really look up to Mr. Graham and his work. I just wish he was getting younger rather than older, cause I love his messages when I see them on TV. Have a Great Day and pray those Magazines find their way to someones heart.
Congratulations Kathy, I enjoyed your article greatly and I for one believe that $100 will change a lot of lives.Thanks and I only wish I had alot more of those 100$ to help more people in the world.......Thanks again
Congrats, Kathy!! I just found out today who won and I'm excited for you and all the winners! We're part of one fantastic "Writers' Community!" aren't we? I know you will be blessed as you have blessed others by your big, generous heart.Wow.....I am feeling a bit overwhelmed here with all these wonderful comments...I don't deserve all this you know. All the articles that I have had time to read were to me the winnings articles. All of you have been writing for a long time and I don't feel right accepting first place. Second would be perfect. I have never won a first place in my life and it doesn't feel right to me. Mind you I was so excited and happy, just like I had won the lottery or something. But now that I see all the congrats that I am getting, I can't seem to accept it. It's great mind you, but I can not actually believe that I deserved to win especially with all the great articles that were submitted....I really don't know what to say.......except Thank you is about the only thing that I can say to everyone.
Congratulations on your win Kathy and for your tremendous article. Well done.Thank you very much...
Here is a funny thing. I have come to know Kathy as a friend. She has calmed me in times of doubt and she has helped when I cry. She has answered my questions when I have a lot of doubt, and she has shared with me real day-to-day strategies to get through sad times. I read this story and these words and eveyrone's comments AFTER I have gotten to know Kathy. It made me smile because if someone had given me this to read and I did not know the author, I would have said, "Wow, that sounds like something Kathy would have said" or "Kathy would really like this" or "Wow, that's a 'Kathy message' for sure. Kathy is such a good, humble child of God and such a nice, giving person. And what talent Kathy has in so many ways, in writing and as an artist in many ways and as a mother and wife and as a friend. I used to see the word "outreach" in newspapers and magazines and I thought that is one of these newfangled words that have come along in today's world because I don't remember hearing that word thirty years ago. But now I like that word if it means that someone is extending their hand and their heart to you. Kathy is so good at outreach, and I think her writings will reach out to readers and help them in immeasurable ways. She is one of the truly good people in the world. I applaud her and I really like her writings. I have truly become a Kathy Somers Walsh fan and I hope she writes more and more.Wow Sherry, I didn't think that you felt this way...I am touched believe me. I am glad that I help make you feel better....I don't know what to say except...I don't know what to say. I have met Sherry online thru a forum that Dave Potchak has online, he is a writer here at searchwarp as well. I am very glad that my emails to you and my articles and getting to know you makes you feel better. I am at a loss for words for once :) Have a great day!!
I found a place to put the $100 that I had won from this article contest. There is an 80 year old women that I know of, but never met. She had an extremely difficult life. When her husband died he left her with nothing and I mean NOTHING. He was a serious alcoholic. This woman is a christian lady, and I am very good friends with her daughter. Her mom lives 3 hrs from here. This elderly lady has medication that she absolutely NEEDS but doesn't have the money to buy it all the time. Sometimes she has to go with out for weeks at a time. It shouldn't be like that at all. I think all she receives is an old age pension which isn't enough to live on. Her daughter helps her as well, but they don't have the money to do it all the time. I gave the $100 dollars to my friends mother, what she does with it is up to her, but her daughter told me that she will be spending it on the medication that she desperately needs. I know that it won't save the world what I chosen to do with the money, but it will save her world.
Wow, you can see exactly what I meant in my last comment. Kathy, you are really one of the good people. I wish all the warring people on this earth would take time and read the words and see the deeds of people like Kathy.Sherry, I don't deserve all those words.......Let me tell everyone, I have bad days and I get grumpy and selfish at times as well...LOL Sherry your sweet, and thank you for your trust, friendship and letting me be able to be a little part of your world, we have never met ever but it's like I know you. Talk soon.....
Hi kathy, This is a great article. I really liked it. I noticed that you left a comment on one of my articles a long time ago, about 87 days ago to be exact. I'm sorry I did not respond. I must have gotten myself really busy and forgot to go back to the article. I felt like you wanted to talk about something, so I'm inviting you, if you want to email me at anytime if you ever want to talk or just need some encouragement. By the way, your writing is so inspirational - I really enjoy reading what you have to say. God Bless! AngieHi Angie...thanks....I read so many of your articles...which one did I leave the comment on? Glad you like my articles, I am not really good at it, but I am trying. I guess I just write what's inside my heart and not on statics and information etc. Well the canoeing articles are information, but it's what I know....not what I read about. anyways enough of that. Don't worry about not leaving a comment after I leave one for u, that is quite alright. But let me know which article it was and then I will write back again and let you know....I always have stuff on my mind..
I found this article very inspiring... If there is one thing I can take away from this reading it is; that I have learned one more thing today about a long time friend that strengthened my faith and gave me a fresh new idea on daily life and my family life!Hi Brad, thanks for the nice words, and the same back to you, you change in life and surrending yourself to Jesus has given me hope that I can do the same, and your words are defiently inspiring me. Thank you again
I don't know if anyone knows but I ordered the Billy Graham Magazine "Decision" and sent it to Ambassadors of China, Sudan, Iraq, Afganistan and Turkey....as you will see below, I forgot to tell you which Magazine I sent LOL sorry about that.
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