Passion

I have found that I am newly passionate about defending the orphans.  My blood begins to boil when people discredit the poverty and sickness that is becoming a global epidemic simply because it is uncomfortable to hear, see, or think about.  I used to be that person. 

What gives us the right to turn the other way when this is becoming a reality for more and more children around the world?  They can't close their eyes or change the channel to make the reality go away.  Why should we?

So yes...maybe you are sick of hearing about Haiti.  But they have to LIVE IT. 

Maybe its uncomfortable to see that commercial about the starving orphans in Africa.  But is your belly the one that is grumbling and there is no food in sight?

Look into these eyes.  How can you not want to help?

As mothers, it brings warmth to our hearts to think about our children going to bed with full bellies and a kiss on the cheek.  Our children have the privaledge of knowing how much they are loved.  Every day.  In every way.  They don't have to scarf down their meals wondering how long it will be until the next.  They won't have to take care of their sick mother wondering if they have to watch her die.  The sadness that some children have seen is more than I will ever know in my entire life.  It could have just has easily been me.  I was born in the position I am in so that I can DO SOMETHING about it.

Won't you join me?  What can you do TODAY to help an orphan in need?

This Could Be Our Day

-Addison Road

What we do here is just the beginning
New life is starting at every ending

We are a part of the story unfolding

This is the weight of the world we are holding

This could be our day

This could be our day

Clearly it's time to make a change

Or I could keep sitting and waste all day

I know that it's time for me to move

I've been given this minute to use

And given this moment to prove that

What we do here is just the beginning

New life is starting at every ending

We are a part of the story unfolding

This is the weight of the world we are holding

This could be our day

This could be our day

I was holding back

Now I've come undone

I want to touch the world

Heal the broken ones

Ending the cycle has just begun

We've been given this minute to use

And given this life to prove

What we do here is just the beginning

New life is starting at every ending

We are a part of the story unfolding

This is the weight of the world we are holding

This could be our day

This could be our day

To give ourselves away

For something beautiful

A million miles away

To the one who's hungry, and thirsty

And needs some hope

To the people that are weary and

Broken and left alone

I'm giving myself away

I've giving myself away

What we do here is just the beginning

New life is starting at every ending

We are a part of the story unfolding

This is the weight of the world we are holding

This could be our day

This could be our day