Truly Inspiring

It has become clear why I have started writing this far in advance of my trip. I am obviously on more than one journey right now. To be honest, I can’t clearly pin point what exactly this journey is. Maybe that’s why so many of my friends are open to talk to me about this…maybe they are on some kind of journey themselves. I’m not really sure but I can tell you right now I am truly learning a lot about my friends’ character.

I think the most inspiring thing thus far has definitely been everyone’s willingness to help me in some capacity. Anything from lending me equipment to helping me set up some kind of charity, all the way to offering to walk with me for a few days to keep me company. It’s truly inspiring to me when people offer what they can in order to help people. Honestly, I think my friends are a microcosm of society contrary to popular belief. I really truly honestly think that people as a whole are willing to help and not just their friends but strangers. We get caught up in believing that selfishness and cruelty plague this world courtesy of our media. I just see too much good in people to believe that we are caught up in a horrible world.

I really hope that this trip gets people to help in one capacity or another. Not necessarily helping me but helping one another. I’m not one of those hippie world peace types (not that there’s anything wrong with that) but I truly hope that people will help. For those of us that just can’t financially give there are other ways to help. You can help me on this trip by volunteering at your local church or community organization. Sounds hokie but it really does go a long way especially for those people you are helping. Even if you volunteer once for two hours at your local Salvation Army on one lowly Saturday morning you have helped me accomplish my trip. For football, I once volunteered at a Salvation Army serving food and it was awesome to see people be so thankful. It made me look around at some of my teammates and wish they had that same humbleness. I can’t say that my personal volunteer record is this awesome account of every free hour of my day goes to volunteering and charity. No, its not but I am slowly but surely making strides to impact the people around me with doing what I can to help others. It’s important to realize that God has us on this earth to help one another. So, again, whether people donate their time, money, ideas or just anything to anyone or organization that helps one another is what makes my trip a success.

So for those that have volunteered anything to me I say thank you and I really appreciate you. For others, I say I need your help in one way or another. Just do me a favor, think about anything you can give back to this awesome world we live in. I will help you in any way I can.

Matthew 5 read it