Healing through Service

Last week, I got to meet about 15 high school students and their leader from the NYC area. They are with a group called Tuesday's Children - all the students lost a loved one on 9/11/2001. The whole theme of their annual winter break trip is finding healing through service. SUCH a sweet group!

What a great example though...most people go through tough times and sadly become even more self-involved than we already are. Think about hard times and how it really makes you focus more on yourself...handling how you feel, figuring out how you will get through it, feeling down just doesn't allow room fore much other consideration. I think it's pretty admirable that these high school students know the importance of doing things for others, and in turn, actually feel closer to those they lost while doing this service to others.

This video makes me laugh...the last line is the best:


Each day someone donated lunch to them, then I would convince Koren and Michael to give a motivational speech to get everyone going again for the afternoon.

Here is Koren about to draw some tears...she's good!

Here a link to read about Live5's coverage of the group: http://www.live5news.com/global/story.asp?s=11993734