{"id":1892,"date":"2014-10-22T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T16:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/make-better-world-it-starts-with-you\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:01:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:01:34","slug":"make-better-world-it-starts-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1892","title":{"rendered":"Make a Better World &#8212; It Starts With You and Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-tTvRAknaRbk\/VEeR22VWczI\/AAAAAAAAG74\/pGAB0zngqek\/s1600\/Better%2BWorld.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BetterWorld.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The Pessimist moans, &#8220;I could make a better world than this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Optimist sings, &#8220;Go for it !!! That&#8217;s what God put you here for!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed we can make this world a better place by taking on an attitude of &#8220;I&#8217;m here &#8212; not to just take up space, but God placed me here on this earth, at this time, to make a difference in our world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No, we can&#8217;t do everything, but we can do SOMETHING: volunteering for, or giving to a local charity, taking food to someone home bound, being attentive to our environment, putting a grocery cart back in its space, picking trash up off the road, taking clothes to the Goodwill or Salvation Army, giving away clothes that you haven&#8217;t worn in years, taking a friend to a doctor appointment or grocery shopping, holding the hand of a friend when their loved one is ill or close to leaving this world, , giving a smile and a word of encouragement to someone that needs that love today.<\/p>\n<p>Did I give enough examples that you&#8217;re motivated to do something? GREAT! That&#8217;s what we want to do &#8212; to inspire, encourage, motivate those around us to help make our world a better place &#8212; and IT STARTS WITH YOU AND ME!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pessimist moans, &#8220;I could make a better world than this.&#8221; The Optimist sings, &#8220;Go for it !!! That&#8217;s what God put you here for!&#8221; Indeed we can make this world a better place by taking on an attitude of &#8220;I&#8217;m here &#8212; not to just take up space, but God placed me here on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11241,10216,11242,11243,219,11244,599],"class_list":["post-1892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-better-place","tag-do-something","tag-help-our-world","tag-make-a-better-world","tag-make-a-difference","tag-starts-with-you-and-me","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2797,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1892\/revisions\/2797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}