I try and get my blog out as part of wrapping up the week; it often reflects my frame of mind. This week has been one of the hardest I have experienced, but I am ending the week feeling strangely at peace. So, a brief, gentle blog, with no edge at all, aimed at no one.

This one is to remind each of us how precious is our common humanity. I share it to encourage charity fundraisers because the principle of the 'Widow's Mite' is an important one. But it carries an important message to each of us.

Ken Burnett, in an inspiring book on fundraising asked 'who is a donor?' Answer: someone who gives up something from his own surplus to help others. He goes on to tell a lovely story about the beggars of Calcutta, who asked the Salvation army to reduce their single square meal a day by half to help a neighbouring camp that had just filled up with refugees. Beggars became donors.

'Man is dear to man: the poorest poor
Long for some moments in a weary life
When they can know and feel that they have been
Themselves the fathers and the givers-out
Of some small blessings; have been kind to such
As needed kindness, for the single cause
That we have all of us one common heart.'
(William Wordsworth)

Lord each day give us open thankful hands

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