Christmas Charity

I spent my Sunday morning entertaining hundreds of kids gathered at the San Agustin church where they gave us the special performances they prepared for the Christmas Party program.

One thing I really love about being Miss Chinatown is my job desciption to attend these events that allow me to see the good in this world. To give when I can, to share lives and allow people to touch mine as well.

To start the program, the organizers asked me to say a prayer and they gave me the most beautiful prayer I've ever read:

Radiating Christ

Dear Jesus,

Help us to spread Your fragrance everywhere we go. Flood our souls with Your spirit and life. Penetrate and possess our whole being so utterly that our lives may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through us, and be so in us that every soul we come in contact with may feel Your presence in our souls. Let them look up and see no longer us, but only Jesus! Stay with us, and then we shall begin to shine as You shine; so to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from You, none of it will be ours; it will be You shining on others through us. Let us thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on others through us. Let us preach You without preaching, not by words but by our example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what we do, the evident fullness of the love our hearts bear to You.

Amen.

So when you have spare time during your weekend, do try to look up organizations you could help out with in forwarding their respective advocacies. Change lives, and be changed as well.