The entire East and Midwest are freezing.  It is miserable.  However, it could be worse.  We've had freezes in the past that came with rain, sleet or snow that broke trees down from the weight of it.  We've had snow so deep you couldn't get your car out of the garage.  So I won't complain.  I've turned on a space (electric) heater.  I've turned on the gas fireplace.  Surely this will let up soon.

There are people on the streets that will freeze tonight.  It is so sad that in a nation with such abundance, there are people with nothing.  It is a good time of year to volunteer at your local food kitchen.  Or help stock your local food pantry.  Go through your coats--I'm sure that if you are like me you have so many that you can't wear them all.  Take them to Goodwill, or a local shelter.  Along with blankets.  Don't be stingy just because you think these people should have planned their lives better.  Don't blame them for the condition they are in.  The situation is what it is.

Poor--really poor--people have lost hope.  They don't know how to get out of the mess they are in.  They don't have jobs, and even if they do, minimum wage hardly covers child care, much less a car payment, gas, food, electricity, water, gas, etc.  I have a lady that I know that works full time as an aide at a local hospital that no matter how many hours she works it isn't enough to subsist.  She lives in a trailer--which isn't insulated so her electric bills are twice what mine are.  She tries really hard to make it.  But she isn't getting ahead and probably never will.  She isn't irresponsible.  So I help her.

Help the poor person that you know.  You can't save the world.  But you can make life a little better for one person.  God has given us so much.

Psalms 82:3  "Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy."
Proverbs 21:13  "Whoever stops his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard."
Jeremiah 22:16 "He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him.  Isn't this a sign that you know Me?"