Stephen only became a journalist later in life; he was born a comedian
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My final post! Stephen reports the final total as USD $2619. He thanks us for what is “a huge help” and adds: “We are blessed!” I agree and I thank you as well. I’ll bet the emotional support is as important to one who has just lost their home as the financial help.
Thank you for being part of my project. It was a grand success for me and Stephen and Anthony!
Remember: Stephen and Anthony’s Paypal handle is stephenandanthony for anyone who missed participating.
Love must flow and we get to experience it as it flows through us to be shared. (1) Giving is sharing is loving. Thank you to all who participated, sharing their love spiritually or financially!
Footnotes
(1) Archangel Michael: Love is the energy of the universe. It is the energy of the Mother. And it moves constantly, continually, eternally, infinitely. So, to have an experience of love, it [must move] through you. (Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, Dec. 5, 2018.) (Hereafter AAM.)
AAM: Love is a fluid energy. It has need to flow and so when it does not flow it becomes… Well, as you put it, it be can become dry and brittle. It has need to be given and received above, below, within, without and in every which way. (AAM, April 30, 2019.)
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Last day to be “part of my project.”
*** We’ve raised USD $1537 of a target total of USD $2550. USD $1013 to go.***
I have to share something I was reminded of when reading Stephen’s letter. Make no mistake. At the end I encourage you to “be a part of my project” to assist Stephen and Anthony with their moving costs (1200 kms). But that doesn’t mean that I don’t mean what I say between here and there.
I was reminded about giving. I’ve told you many times how influential it was when my brother Paul and my sister-in-law Fran heard I’d arrived back in Vancouver from Carleton University in 1970 and was broke. My first check from UBC was late in arriving.
I bawled that my fridge was empty (this is a Number One core issue with me). No sooner did they hear that than they came right over on a Sunday night with two very expensive bags of groceries.
They bought these at the corner store – the only place open – and groceries were very expensive there. The kindness of these two souls just got in and their example has stayed with me ever since.
Stephen and Anthony (waving), as they hope to be again very soon!
Perhaps out of that – and out of a mutually-shared, tight financial upbringing – Paul and I developed a certain pattern of giving.
He’d call me up and in the course of the conversation he’d say he was buying his son a computer.
Because we’d been through tough financial times, no one needed to say, can you afford it? It was more or less understood that the participation of others would always be welcomed.
Thank you, Tropical Cyclone Alfred
And I’d say to him, hey, I’d like to be part of that project. And I’d send him whatever I could spare.
It wasn’t “tell your son where it came from me.” It wasn’t about recognition. It was about banding together with Paul to make come true what, single-handedly, neither of us might be able to.
And we’d do this, hopscotch, throughout our lives.
Paul’s gone, but I still do that regularly with a few people. It’s tangible encouragement. It’s fun. My needs are few in any case.
I don’t lose a friend because I loaned them money and they never returned it. Everyone gets to pay it forward endlessly.
Anthony and Stephen visiting Steve at the modest place where GAoG was born.
So now I switch and leave that. Now my intention is to extend the invitation to you to be a part of my project. That project is to see that Stephen and Anthony, who have lived through the traumatic loss of their home and many of their possessions and found a remarkable new place 1200 kms away, have the means to move themselves from the scene of chaos to what seems like an almost idyllic setting (and it was the locale they always wanted. Miracles.)
By equally-remarkable circumstances (namely, Y O U and a home owner desperate to sell), they were able to afford what they call a “tiny home.” I invite you to join me in going the rest of the way to help them move their belongings and get settled in. Why? Because it brings love up from the heart. And you don’t have to if you don’t want to. But it’s fun to share.
If you’ll join me, their need – and our target – is USD $2550 for removal costs. Their Paypal handle is stephenandanthony. Thank you. That was fun! You’ve really made a difference.