How Much To Give?

I appreciate Peter Sturgeon passing along this quote from C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity.

"I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little….There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures exclude them."

United Way: Welcome Baby

One of Ashlee's friends, Melanie Hall, passed along this idea for helping new mothers in Utah County. Since most of you live in the area, I thought I'd pass this along (hope you don't mind Melanie.)

"Regarding opportunities to give time to help kids and families... The United Way of Utah County has started a program where experienced mothers visit first-time mothers once a month for a year after their baby is born. It's basically like visiting teaching on a county level and focused on teaching mothers who may not have much other support about taking care of and raising a child during their first year. http://www.unitedwayuc.org/welcomebaby/

The program is in desperate need of experienced moms to volunteer for this. I think I'm going to go through their next training and give it a shot."