What in the world, you may be asking, is a "Make a Move" event? Well it's something I initiated a couple of years ago, inspired by my friend Lori.  Basically we send out an invite for people to join us in assembling "blessing" bags for the homeless. We fill gallon sized Ziploc bags with hygiene items, socks, non-perishable food items, and my hub and I add in Subway gift cards.  We send out a list of what we are looking for, we take donations and buy suggested items with those donations, and then we take an hour on a designated Saturday and make up as many bags for men, women, and even children that we can.  It's AWESOME. Piles of socks, piles of razors, stacks of granola bars and tuna kits, full size bottles of soaps, travel sized bottles of soaps, piles of toothbrushes and toothpaste, etc.  And in about 30 minutes we can deplete those piles and stacks and make these bags up! I keep some of the bags in my car and look for opportunities to hand them out.  In ...

Once a month my home church makes and serves dinner at a homeless shelter here in town.  We even have our kiddos serving food and (hopefully) engaging with the people who pass through the line.  This night never fails to prompt gratefulness in me.  The gratefulness doesn't come necessarily in the ways one might think.  Of course, I am grateful that our family doesn't need to utilize the services of this particular shelter but gratefulness always comes upon observing/interacting with some of the residents there.  Sometimes I run across one, or more, who challenge me in my Gratitude Attitude and you know what?  I need that.  I need the refocus their outlook provides.  I need to be reminded that we have a lot to be grateful for.  Hearing their stories, watching them do the best they can to find a job or work toward getting back on their feet always provides me the reminder that every single one of us is always "one paycheck" away and we ought no...