Have you ever been so cold that you wake up with your teeth chattering? That’s what happens when you sleep in a city at an altitude of 7,896 feet without a blanket! The best present to give a child in Adigrat, Ethiopia is a blanket! And I am happy to say that someone has just donated 9,000 blankets for us to distribute to any children we find! Love in action!

“Only if I serve my neighbor can my eyes be opened to what God does for me and how much he loves me. The saints — consider the example of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta — constantly renewed their capacity for love of neighbor… No longer is it a question of a “commandment” imposed from without and calling for the impossible, but rather of a freely-bestowed experience of love from within, a love which by its very nature must then be shared with others. Love grows through love. From DEUS CARITAS EST BENEDICT XVI.

Read through this Encyclical of Pope Benedict slowly. It will change your life!