Lending a Helping Hand to Friends and Family
Sometimes, life just comes at you.
You aren't even sure what happened.
One day you go to work just like you have five days a week for the past 10 years, and they tell you goodbye.
You have been downsized.
After a while, you can't make your mortgage payment, and no one will hire you.
Sometimes, you get sick.
The doctors, hospitals and prescriptions eat up all your savings, you can't work, and you can't pay your rent.
Sometimes, mommies and daddies break up.
You don't know why, but now you have nowhere to live.
Sometimes, a homeless person is a friend, a former neighbor, a classmate, or a family member.
What Can You Do to Help? First, don't judge.
Telling someone all the things they did wrong is not going to help improve their circumstances.
Depression, self-doubt, and other negative emotions all play a part in making people who are experiencing a rough time in their lives feel that there is no hope.
Second, provide encouragement.
Offer to help.
Give them a place to stay until they are on their feet, help with food, drive them to job interviews, or offer to babysit.
If you aren't in a financial position to help, you could connect them to services that can provide further assistance.
Third, be a friend.
Let them know that there is someone who sees them and hears them.
Be a positive influence.
How Important is Your Help? You see stories all the time that celebrate small gestures that made big differences.
There was the city cop buying shoes for a barefoot homeless man.
What about all the people who opened their homes during disasters to feed and house families? Being shown a kindness not only offers a solution to an immediate problem, but it also shows a person that someone cares.
When your life is falling apart, depression sets in and it becomes more difficult to think clearly and plan ahead.
If your life is complicated by other factors such as mental, physical or sexual abuse, illness, joblessness and other issues, it can be almost impossible to have hope.
It is important that as the people in our lives face life's tragedies and difficulties, they know that they have somewhere to turn.
Open your heart and you can really make a difference in someone's life.
A little help can set someone on a better course and give them a chance to recover from their present situation.
Besides lending a hand to people you know, you can donate or volunteer at your local food bank, homeless shelter, or any other public or private agency that helps people in need.
You aren't even sure what happened.
One day you go to work just like you have five days a week for the past 10 years, and they tell you goodbye.
You have been downsized.
After a while, you can't make your mortgage payment, and no one will hire you.
Sometimes, you get sick.
The doctors, hospitals and prescriptions eat up all your savings, you can't work, and you can't pay your rent.
Sometimes, mommies and daddies break up.
You don't know why, but now you have nowhere to live.
Sometimes, a homeless person is a friend, a former neighbor, a classmate, or a family member.
What Can You Do to Help? First, don't judge.
Telling someone all the things they did wrong is not going to help improve their circumstances.
Depression, self-doubt, and other negative emotions all play a part in making people who are experiencing a rough time in their lives feel that there is no hope.
Second, provide encouragement.
Offer to help.
Give them a place to stay until they are on their feet, help with food, drive them to job interviews, or offer to babysit.
If you aren't in a financial position to help, you could connect them to services that can provide further assistance.
Third, be a friend.
Let them know that there is someone who sees them and hears them.
Be a positive influence.
How Important is Your Help? You see stories all the time that celebrate small gestures that made big differences.
There was the city cop buying shoes for a barefoot homeless man.
What about all the people who opened their homes during disasters to feed and house families? Being shown a kindness not only offers a solution to an immediate problem, but it also shows a person that someone cares.
When your life is falling apart, depression sets in and it becomes more difficult to think clearly and plan ahead.
If your life is complicated by other factors such as mental, physical or sexual abuse, illness, joblessness and other issues, it can be almost impossible to have hope.
It is important that as the people in our lives face life's tragedies and difficulties, they know that they have somewhere to turn.
Open your heart and you can really make a difference in someone's life.
A little help can set someone on a better course and give them a chance to recover from their present situation.
Besides lending a hand to people you know, you can donate or volunteer at your local food bank, homeless shelter, or any other public or private agency that helps people in need.
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