It's the third day of 2009 and a beautiful sunny one. Seeing a clear blue sky always generates in me a sense of optimism and confidence. Since I will need plenty of both over the next three and a half months, I'm praying for good weather! The countdown is really beginning now, with lots of training and fundraising still to do. I guess the New Year always makes us think about our prospects for the next 12 months, maybe more than ever this year with so many predictions of deep recession at home and abroad. It's not an easy time to be asking people for money. However, the financial insecurity I'm witnessing in so many people around me inspires me more than ever about the charities I've chosen. For the poor of Tamil Nadu served by Reaching the Unreached, need is not a fear but a daily, grinding reality which for most of us can cast a clear light onto our prosperity-based worries. Yet with jobs at risk and the combination of rising prices and falling income making established lifestyles untenable, many people in this country are at risk of crippling anxiety and depression. WPF Therapy's services, and particularly their reduced fees for those on low income, are likely to be more needed than ever.
Perhaps now is a good time to have a look at our own standard of living and whatever challenges we are facing in our lives, and to appreciate how lucky so many of us are. Of course, appreciation in a vacuum won't help the situation - so some redistribution of wealth could be considered! In that context I'd like to express my gratitude once more for the generosity you have all shown. It's wonderful to see the running totals rising - almost half way now! And so many promises and pledges. I'm looking forward, with blue-sky confidence, to seeing those promises being transformed into donations in the coming weeks. And you can look forward to me transforming good intentions into action, as I re-double my efforts to make this project a success.
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