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Contributor List, Biographies, and Suggested Resources

Five Things to Do to Make the World a Better Place

1. If you engage in a conversation with a hurting person, follow up with them
   on it. Most people don’t. Run toward the pain, pray for them, check in with
   them, and let them know you are thinking of them and they aren’t alone.


2. If you can, buy a gift card or an extra bag of groceries every time you
   are at the store and pass it on to someone who might need it. You don’t
   have to make a big deal of it, just slip it to them, or get it in the hands of
   someone who will know someone who is struggling.


3. Make yourself invite a neighbor or someone you normally don’t hang out
   with for dinner.


4. Go hang out at your local social services/food stamp/Medicaid offi ce for
   a few hours and learn what life is like for them. Just observe. Notice the
   shame. Notice the pain. Ask God to show you what you are supposed to
   do about it.


5. Bring a bunch of bus tokens to your local women’s shelter. They always
   need them.

Contributor: Marcia Ford

Professional title: Author and editor
Personal Web site: http://www.marciaford.com
Bio: Marcia Ford is the author of twenty-fi ve books you’ve never heard
of. But that’s OK, because she’s content to live in obscurity as long as she can
do so in the Colorado Rockies. She writes, edits, knits, and lives a good life in
full view of Pikes Peak’s North Slope.

Recommended Books, Web Sites,

Blogs, and Other Resources

Leif Enger, Peace Like a River (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002).
Everything C. S. Lewis ever wrote.

Favorite Quotes

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

—Mark Twain

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that

I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, “I used

everything you gave me.”

—Erma Bombeck