Sarah was at a restaurant,
waiting to be served. She noticed the countenance of the waitress was sad. She
wanted to ask what could possibly be wrong. She withheld the action. The waiter
served her and left and in less than 5 minutes. Sarah heard a gunshot. The waitress
had taken her life. Sarah sat down and wondered for a few minutes. She said repeatedly,
“I knew it, I knew it”. She pondered, “What if I had cared to ask? What if she
was just going through some sort of discouragement? What if I’d shared my own stories and
the time I nearly took my own life? Could that have changed her life? What
could possibly be so wrong that she took her life?" She thought of the
rejection, she could have received, if she'd asked. It seems to be a reasonable excuse not to interfere in personal matters. It was a ticket to free her of any guilt that might want to erode her sanity. “But, she
could have shared a word, or left a note,” she pondered again. She might be in
debt or just wanted love and could not find it in the world. What if I tucked a
penny, or smiled? Could something she wanted to do have made a difference? No one could tell,
because the waitress was far away from the living. One thing was sure. There
are many ways to give hope to someone who needs one and a little can make a difference.
Like Sarah, many of us might be wondering, what we have to do to inspire hope in someone. Some of us want to get it together, have a big miracle
before sharing our testimony, some of us are still trying to find our way and
we think we don’t deserve to lead the way. Some of us are buried too deep in
our debt, past, failures, successes that we don’t look back to see those in our
trails. Some of us like Sarah might be waiting to be served and treated like a
guest that will lose sight of people missing purpose or losing hope around us. Some of us are too busy; we can’t be bothered; too self-centered or think it's unnecessary. Other are just too afraid to help.
It might be too late on
a second thought for someone, so please take the step now.
It might be your next door neighbour;
the lady who smiles a lot, but have her head constantly buried. People around
you might not be as fine as you think. Someone might be losing hope to cancer. May
be a teenager is lost in addiction. You don't have to do much. Be a source of
hope or help us to reach out. When you participate, you
sign to cheer the hopeless, unloved, broken, lost souls. You are sharing this
with those who have lost courage, to those who sought for LOVE, to children who
does not know what it means to be loved, to the fearful, to those who have lost
out in the course of the year, to those who feel beaten down, with shoulders
low. You are helping someone to start a brand new life or pick up from where
they stopped.
Just like we donate a pint
of BLOOD to save or sustain a life, at HopeDrips, we use stories to inspire and
change lives. Just as "blood is the most precious gift that anyone can
give to another person — the gift of life", your commitment to give hope
to someone is a profound and a significant contribution. You also benefit from this.
Like your body quickly regenerates a fresh amount of blood to replenish the
blood that was taken out of your system; every story or word that you share with
someone needing hope, revitalize you. You will lose nothing and you might save
a life or two or more. Thank you for lending the hand of hope.
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