Everyone who faces extreme poverty also lacks the choices that we take for granted, yet not everyone who has limited choices lives in extreme poverty.
The truth is that poverty of choice touches even more than 2 billion of our us. When choice and options are limited, lives are held back and hope is far harder to find.
CompassionArt supports projects restoring choice and hope to people's lives. We provide funding to projects working with children in Uganda – some of whom have already endured the brutality of life as a child soldier – as well as children of sex workers in Indian slums. There are homeless shelters in the middle of wealthy western cities and orphanages in the middle of developing nations that are helped financially - as a result of the sale of CompassionArt albums, songs and books - all of them breathing hope back into lives that have been conditioned to believe that life may never get any better.
WHY FIGHT POVERTY?
One more question; why are we doing this?
Isn't poverty one of those things that will always be around? Or isn't this something that's best left to world leaders and kind-hearted charity workers?
This time the answer's simple; we fight poverty because it is there and because its presence brings shame on us all. Today, poverty should not exist, but it does. Why? Greed. But that's nowhere near being an excuse for doing nothing about it.
WHERE DO THE PROCEEDS GO?
Restoring the Sound
Preventing African schoolgoers from getting caught in a culture of gangs and violence. Restore The Sound uses music as a means to better themselves and their community.
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WHERE DO THE PROCEEDS GO?
Baby Watoto
In Uganda, abandoned children - from newborns to two-year-olds - are given care, medical support and a loving environment and a future in a family as part of the Watoto Community.
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Friday, February 06, 2009
Thursday, February 05, 2009
There is Always, Always, Something to be Thankful for..
the key to my success has always been gratitude. I believe the events of my life have proven to me that if you work hard, always maintain gratitude for everything in your life and always seek to be of service to others, then you will be justly rewarded and can look back content in knowing that you lived the right way. I am thankful. I am happy.
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Sensitivity
I have a love/hate relationship with my sensitivity. On one hand, I'm extremely compassionate. I love deeply. I feel things at a deep level. A simple news story will send me to my knees in prayer for days. I feel so badly for people going through pain, hardships, or turmoil. I HATE when people hurt. I want to FIX IT ALL right now. I lose sleep often, pondering how I can fix someones troubles or help them. I try to be intentional with showing my love to people and I try to find tangible ways to make a difference.
On the other hand I am completely sensitive and my feelings can get hurt so quickly.
I struggle with this and it's usually something said in passing and maybe wasn't meant to be malicious, but I take it as such, that I will spend a whole lot of wasted time trying to figure it out. I hate that I'm such a people pleaser sometimes. I hate that I don't have thick skin and can't brush things off so quickly and easily.
Why do I waste my time on this stuff? I'll move on, in time. I try to not hold a grudge. I try to not repay hurtful words with hurtful words. I don't ever bother to tell the people they have hurt me.....I wonder why that is? I hate confrontation and I hate to cause a stir...so I drop it with them, but the wounds stay with me for awhile, actually a long while.
I'm glad Jesus understands that words hurt. I'm glad He knows my heart and can help me move forward and forgive and forget. In my own power I can't....so I rely on His perspective and what He thinks of me more that what others think. I pray that I will think before I speak. I want to speak life and encouraging words. I want to be that kind of a person. Build up rather than tear down!
On the other hand I am completely sensitive and my feelings can get hurt so quickly.
I struggle with this and it's usually something said in passing and maybe wasn't meant to be malicious, but I take it as such, that I will spend a whole lot of wasted time trying to figure it out. I hate that I'm such a people pleaser sometimes. I hate that I don't have thick skin and can't brush things off so quickly and easily.
Why do I waste my time on this stuff? I'll move on, in time. I try to not hold a grudge. I try to not repay hurtful words with hurtful words. I don't ever bother to tell the people they have hurt me.....I wonder why that is? I hate confrontation and I hate to cause a stir...so I drop it with them, but the wounds stay with me for awhile, actually a long while.
I'm glad Jesus understands that words hurt. I'm glad He knows my heart and can help me move forward and forgive and forget. In my own power I can't....so I rely on His perspective and what He thinks of me more that what others think. I pray that I will think before I speak. I want to speak life and encouraging words. I want to be that kind of a person. Build up rather than tear down!
Encouragement
There are moments in your life that sets the course and makes who you are going to be. Sometimes they're little subtle moments. Sometimes they're big moments you never saw coming. No one asks for their life to change, but it does. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.
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