Count Your Blessings
Take
a small box, put a slot in the lid, and then wrap it in Christmas paper. Each
day, add the following:
Dec. 1 - Put 25
cents in the box for everyone in your family that had at least two meals this
day. The average American eats five times as much as people in developing
countries.
Dec. 2 – Add two
cents for every light bulb in your house.
Dec. 3 – Add up
the number of years your whole family has gone to school and add two cents for
each year.
Dec. 4 – Add 10
cents for every hour the television set was turned on.
Dec. 5 - Add 10
cents for every gallon of gas your car holds.
Dec. 6 – For every
can of pop in your house, add two cents. We discard 1,500 aluminum drink cans
every second. Over a year, that’s 788,400,000 cans.
Dec. 7 – Count all
the pairs of shoes and boots in your house and add one cent per pair.
Dec. 8 – If you
have your own bedroom, sewing room, or office, add 25 cents.
Dec. 9 – Total the
length of your house and add six cents per meter.
Dec. 10 –
Contribute 25 cents for every pet you own.
Dec. 11 – Add
three cents for every electrical appliance you use today.
Dec. 12 – For
every room that’s carpeted, add 10 cents.
Dec. 13 - Add 25
cents for every toy gun in your house. Don’t forget video games.
Dec. 14 – Add one
cent for every page of today’s paper. Every day, it takes 500,000 trees to
supply newsprint for America’s Sunday newspapers.
Dec. 15 – If you
or any member of your family has ever been vaccinated, add 25 cents per person.
Every minute, 13 children under five years old die in the developing world
because they haven’t been vaccinated.
Dec. 16 – For
every electrical outlet in your home, add five cents.
Dec. 17 – If you
have a clothes drier, add 50 cents.
Dec, 18 – Add five
cents for every pair of mittens or gloves that you own.
Dec. 19 – If you
are wearing clothes that have only belonged to you, add 25 cents.
Dec. 20 – If you
have a bed of your own to sleep on, add 25 cents. In Bombay, India, between
100,000 and 500,000 people rest their heads on the pavement every night.
Dec. 21 – Add $1
if you own a VCR or DVD player and $1 for every computer or smartphone in your
home.
Dec. 22 – For
every glass of clean water that you drank today, add 10 cents. Of the six
billion people living on the planet today, one in four do not have access to
adequate drinking water.
Dec. 23 – Add 25
cents if you know the name of your doctor.
Dec. 24 – If you
have more than one blanket on your bed, add 25 cents.
Dec. 25 – Add five
cents for every serving of meat given in your house today.
Dec. 26 – If you
didn’t recycle your Christmas wrappings, add $1.
Dec. 27 – For
every glassed window in your house, add five cents.
Dec. 28 – For each
person in your family who earns more than 20 cents an hour, add 50 cents.
Dec. 29 – Add 25
cents for every fridge or freezer in your home.
Dec. 30 – For
every book you have read or received this month, add 10 cents.
Dec. 31 – If you
keep the water running while you brush your teeth, add 25 cents.
Jan. 1 – Add five
cents for every time you talked or texted someone on a phone today.
Jan. 2 – For every
can of food in your cupboard add 5 cents.
Jan. 3 – If you
have more than 10 items in your fridge, add two cents for every extra item.
Jan. 4- Consider
how fortunate you are. In North America, one out of every four children under
the age of six is living in poverty.
Jan. 5 – Sit down
with your family and decide to whom you would like to donate the contents of
your sharing box.
Jan 6 – (Epiphany)
– Add up the contents of your box and then send your blessing to Surprised by Hope through your credit card or PayPal or by sending a check to:
Surprised by Hope
464 Adaway SE
Ada, MI 49301
Surprised by Hope
464 Adaway SE
Ada, MI 49301
Together, we can
change our world!