Awakenings

Switchfoot has a new song and video out that is AWESOME!

Here's a sample of the lyrics that really spoke to me . . .


These dreams started singing to me out of nowhere
And in all my life I don't know if I've ever felt so alive,
Alive

I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want a heart that I know is beating,
It's beating . . .

I want to wake up kicking and screaming
I want to live like I know what I'm leaving
I want a heart that I know is beating,
It's beating... it's beating...

Check it out!

(Thank you to Amber Cox for showing it on her blog)

This is an AMAZING story about how an "every day person" just like us followed her heart, turned a personal tragedy into something good, and is making a HUGE difference in a place where people have no value at all.


On her first night in India, Becky Douglas lay awake thinking about beggars. As she tossed and turned that night, Douglas prayed. "'I'm just a housewife. Tell me what I should do.' And the thought came to me: 'You can at least look at them. You can at least acknowledge that they're suffering.' And the next day I did."

Six years later, Douglas is a veteran activist fighting to end leprosy in India. The organization she started around her kitchen table now works with 20,000 people who live in 45 leprosy colonies, providing them with microloans, mobile health clinics and schools.

It was the death of her oldest daughter, Amber, that started it all. When Douglas was cleaning out her daughter's dorm room she discovered that Amber had been sending part of her college money to orphans in India. CHECK OUT THE FULL STORY . . .
http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3058