“It’s easier to take than to give. It’s nobler to give than to take. The thrill of taking lasts a day. The thrill of giving lasts a lifetime.” ― Joan F. Marques

It’s 12 : 00 PM on day 2038 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read Revelation 15, have breakfast, learn one new thing – The cobra is deaf to the snake charmer’s pipe, but follows the visual cue of the moving pipe and it can sense the ground vibrations from the snake charmer’s tapping. Sometimes, for the sake of safety, all the venom in cobra’s teeth is removed. – and work on my 25 Smiles Campaign –raised $5 456 only $794 more to raise by 10 Jan 2017 (SO SO SO GRATEFUL to everyone who has supported this campaign so far 🙂 ).

Yesterday on The Good Stuff I heard about Celtone’s Celebrate & Donate Campaign – Celtone, a skincare brand here in South Africa, challenges/invites us to set aside 10% from what we plan to spend on any sort of celebration and pass that on to those less fortunate than ourselves (Note: Celtone makes no profit from this campaign) – I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this idea I’ve been doing it for years even before I heard about this campaign (this year I got about R600 in cash for my birthday I used some of it to buy groceries for UThixo Ulungile Ministries and I donated the rest to my  25 Smiles Campaign benefiting  Smile Train) nothing I could buy for myself gives me as much joy as making a difference does so whatever I get I will always give away (my dad always jokingly says he will never bequeath me our house because he’s sure I would turn it into a homeless shelter (which is not a half-bad idea [I’m kidding dad, I think])) our lives are defined by what we contribute to the world not by what we acquire and consume. If you plan to Celebrate & Donate tweet about it using #celebrateanddonate.