A Chance to Mitigate Your Mistakes

Don’t forget; until sundown, today is Yom Ha Shoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. I’m glad it falls on the first of May. Maybe it will take some of the wind out of the sails of the socialists who use this day to celebrate their cruel, godless, self-righteous, discredited ideas.

If you want someone to pray for, how about Holocaust survivors? They’re still with us. In fact, many live in Israel. And thousands of them are poor. You can bless them with a gift, if you want. Here is a link to a webpage describing Guardians of Israel, a program run by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. If you like what you see, you can donate online.

From the site:

The Fellowship’s Guardians of Israel program funds hundreds of projects across Israel that assist poor, elderly Jews by providing them with hot meals, home care, basic medicine and travel to and from doctors’ appointments, and other essentials.

I will tell you the very personal reason why this program touches my heart. My family is disappearing, and I know I did not always treat my older relatives as I should have. I wish I had another chance so I could make it right. I will never be able to do anything for the people I let down, but people like me can still stand in for the missing or selfish relations of needy elderly people who are still with us. And the Internet has made it so easy.

Why wasn’t I thinking about this five years ago? I have no answer.

I can’t erase the first forty years of my life, but perhaps I will live long enough, and God will grant me the opportunities, to make something out of the remainder. I hope my mentioning it will help some of you find a little peace and redemption in your own lives.