To Linda on Homeless Center's Holiday Family Adoptions

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Namah Shivaya Linda,

 

Since I've been so busy with this project, I just now noticed your e-mail!

Your point is good, & I did e-mail Sw. Dayamrita about it. It was suggested

that I start by enrolling the local satsang's help, & Sw. Dayamrita said to let

him know, if help was still needed after that. The MA Center is already

asking devotees for help with a number of local charities.

 

In addition to 2 low income families, HRC's case mgr just asked for help with

2 newly homeless families, & probably a 3rd. homeless family. It broke my

heart to pass a mother & her 3-year-old daughter asleep in a car, & to then

learn that the case mgr couldn't get them "adopted" for the holidays. That is

no way for a child to live. Then I over heard another mother telling the case

mgr how her 5-year-old daughter said she wanted to go home. Her mother

responded that they had no home to go to, since her grandmother had died. Her

mother also lost a good job. Then I watched her board a bus to sleep in an

armory. I cried on the drive home. But today, the little girl said "hi" to

me, & was so bright-eyed & loving!

 

Some devotees are helping, & I'm also asking businesses for help. If you

want a list of requested gifts, I'll be glad to e-mail you privately. It's a

lot of fun to shop for these kids & an excellent way to get into the real

spirit of Christmas.

 

It must be hard not to be around your daughter for Christmas. It probably

would help you to feel better, to focus on a seva. Amma said, " We tend to

think only of our own problems and not to think compassionately of others'

problems. That is our biggest problem!"

 

With love,

 

Sweta

 

nierika wrote: Sweta wrote:

 

>> Even though I swore that I wouldn't get invloved this year, I couldn't

resist trying to do

>> something, after learning through a Homeless Resource Center's case

manager, about >> the low income families who haven't been adopted for

Christmas.

 

Dear Sweta ~ this may be something that needs to be run by Swami Dyamrita.

....I would

love to help too. Because this is the first Christmas in her life that I

will not even see my daughter, I am not feeling very much in the holiday

spirit.

I haven't even put our little tree up, though Doug ldid put our lights up

outside the trailer. I think participating in something like this would help

remind me what Christmas is really all about. Jai Ma ~ Linda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha!

 

 

 

Mata amritanandamayi

 

 

 

 

Visit your group "Ammachi" on the web.

 

Ammachi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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