11,605
POINTS EARNED
POINTS EARNED
Joshua's Charitable Life
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Joshua...
I am a grateful alumni of Beit T'Shuvah. They've done a lot for me. This fundraising team lets me give back to the community that helped me.
via Crowdrise 4 months ago
CROWDRISE MEMBER SINCE: Aug 12, 2011
HOME: Los Angeles, CA, United States
ROCK PAPER OR SCISSORS: Paper
HOME: Los Angeles, CA, United States
ROCK PAPER OR SCISSORS: Paper
STUFF ABOUT ME:
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME:
Every day is a struggle. Life is constanly thowing things our way. Sometime its good things, and sometimes its bad. We need to be apreciative of the positive things that come our way. When bad stuff happens we can sometimes feel weighted down. When the burden becomes too great we can collapse under the pressure. Everybody gets knocked down every once in a while, but trick is to get back up and keep on fighting.
WHY YOU SHOULD VOTE FOR ME:
I am learning to love being sober. I am highly envolved in my recovery. A large part of recovery for me is getting back to my relationship with Higher Power. I do this by going to Shabbos services and 12 Step meetings, and being helpful wherever I can. I also have started praying every morning and every night and its made a big diffenerence in my life. I used to have unrealistic expectations of what I needed to accomplish in this world. When I didn't live up to these high standards, I would really beat myself up. One thing that is of great benifit to me is being o.k. with reaching out to other people for help. The reason you should vote for me because I can't do it with out you.
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DONATIONS
| Rabbi Mark Borovitz | $18 |
| Evelyn Kelly | $100 |
| Anonymous | $20 |
| Joyce | $20 |
| Capri & Tim | $25 |
| Tina Thomas | $25 |
| Andrea Schindler | $25 |
| Zanetta Kelley | $25 |
| Debbie George | $15 |
| Don and Janis Kelly | $50 |
| Sally Moore | $20 |
| Terri and Gary Archer | $100 |
| LD Kelly | $50 |
| Janice and ben Reznik | $18 |
| Dad | $400 |
| Kern Schireson & Pato Amador | $100 |
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." ~Anne Bradstreet
As we continue through the hurricane season here on the east coast of the United States, we have been given a small taste of adversity. I work in a hotel, filled to capacity for several days in a row, following Irene, by people who were without clean water and/or electricity, those with damaged homes, or by those service people coming into the area to help clean up the mess, and restore us to our 'normal way of life'. My involvement here on Crowdrise, however, makes me aware that all of this past week is little more than a reminder of what a large part of Earth's inhabitants go through on a daily basis. Victims such as those of the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, the tsunami, mass flooding, and the tornadoes that ripped though the Continental US's mid-west will require months, if not years, of recover. And the vast majority have no hotel where they can spend that recovery period.
"A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around." ~Ed Howe
Don't underestimate even the most modest of involvement here on this site...A September vote for you and your heroic efforts...