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Greatest Gift
The greatest gift is compassion...not the greatest for
the receiver, but for the giver. 
-- John A. Holmes
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The kindness we extend to others in their hour of adversity will
be returned to us at the time we most need it. 
-- Harriet Johns
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all
knowledge; and though I have all faith....and have not charity, I am nothing.
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of
these is charity. 
-- 1 Corinthians 13, Verses 2 & 13
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.  -- Eric Hoffer
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It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others.  If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others. 
-- Author Unknown
I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human mind as the source of invention and ideas; and in the human heart as the source of national compassion.
-- John F. Kennedy
The dew of compassion is a tear.  -- Lord Byron
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The problem with Sunday school lessons is how quickly they're dismissed
come Monday morning.  Compassion is not weakness and concern
for the unfortunate is not socialism. 
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
Kindness and compassion are essential parts of God's
work and ours here on earth. 
-- Rev. Billy Graham
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My religion is kindness...it's about filling the human
heart with compassion. 
-- Dalai Lama
If we give someone a piece of bread, that's kindness; but if we put
peanut butter or jelly on it, that's
loving kindness.  -- Barbara Johnson
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I define a religious person as one who holds both God and man in one thought at one time; one whose greatest passion is compassion. 
-- Abraham J. Heschel
Compassion cures more ills than condemnation.  -- Henry Ward Beecher
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Man may allow compassion to be driven from his heart, but God
will never allow it to be driven from his soul.
-- William Cowper
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception,
is composed of others. 
-- John A. Holmes
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After the words "to love," the most beautiful words are "to help."
-- Bertha von Suttner
It is only by lifting others that you will rise. -- Robert Ingersoll
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You have not lived a perfect day unless you have done something for
someone who will never be able to repay you. 
-- Ruth Smeltzer
There is a destiny that makes us brothers, none goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others, comes back into our own.
-- Edwin Markham
LINKS:

Good Search.org

Lists of Charitable Organizations and Resources

New Orleans Preservation Resource Center:

Rebuilding & Preserving New Orleans' Historic Homes & Neighborhoods ~and~
Rebuilding Together:  Restoring Homes for New Orleans' Elderly & Disabled

Youth Rebuilding New Orleans

America's Wetland Foundation


Greater New Orleans Second Harvest Food Bank

Save America's Treasures Preservation Program   ~ and ~
Restoring Old St. Louis Cemetery, Est. 1789

Levees.org ~and~ Levees.org Store

Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation:

Help Rebuild the Historic New Basin Canal Lighthouse

Habitat for Humanity:  Gulf Recovery

The NewYork 2 NewOrleans Coalition

Rebuilding New Orleans' Libraries

Samaritan's Purse
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In Honor of Mardi Gras, 2009

Give me Mardi Gras Day on the Avenue,
Give me a beignet-powdered kiss;
Give me a French Quarter morning,
As the sun clears the old river's mist.

Give me a King Cake porcelain doll,
Give me beads and
The Times-Picayune;
Give me a Zatarain's crawfish boil,
On the seawall one evening in June.

Give me some coffee and chicory,
Give me some real Barq's Root Beer;
Give me a city where it snows
Only once about every ten years.

Give me a green neutral ground,
Give me a Mardi Gras Ball;
Give me a shrimp-oyster po-boy
From the grand old Port-of-Call.

Give me the Natchez calliope,
On a moonlight riverboat ride;
Give me some Buster's fried chicken,
With red beans and rice on the side.

Give me a moss-covered oak,
Let me ride the old streetcar again.
One day, I'll be back in New Orleans,
But she'll live in my heart until then.

-- Author Unknown

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Photos on this page are courtesy of KegGuru, with the exception
of the one directly above, which was taken by me.