Why bother?

This blog is sort of sitting here in cyberspace, patiently waiting for me to come and fill it with new thoughts or musings, yet I have little to fill it with. For someone who talks as much as I do, you'd think I could blog all day long.

I have been pondering a writing on the subject of community service and struggle, the whys and whats for of how we give back to our community, even when we'd rather just forget all that!

The only thing I really have to offer on that subject is this:  

When I do good, and it does good, it feels good.

Last month, I handed a four year old girl a tub of cookie dough at the food pantry and it made her grin from ear to ear. She had something fun and free to do with her afternoon.

Two weeks ago, I went to our fellowship's LGBT Welcoming Congregation taskforce meeting/workshop, and someone who had never come before came. I am glad I was there to welcome him.

Last week, the months long work of the city schools Black History Month program committee came to fruition with a wonderful evening. The program was touching and meaningful, and a much bigger success than we had hoped for. 

A young woman that I recruited to participate in the program shared a wonderful poem she had written; it was an Ode to Gwendolyn Brooks. After the program she was given many accolades and the helping hand of a successful woman who wants to guide her through the process of being copyrighted and published. I know the young woman was touched and it was a big night for her. That made it a big night for me too.

I am grateful to have been a part of that.

These are the things I am trying to keep in mind now, as I try my very best to turn my focus inward to do more of this kind of work, namely- working on my sermon for Sunday! topic- UU's and Service!

On a side note, 

I entered my last embroidery in the Spring Fine Arts Competition at 

Cedarhurst Center for the Arts and it was accepted!