Light the world

Last night was the temple lighting event where all the lights were turned on at the temple grounds. What I loved about this event is that people from other faiths were invited to attend as well. 

Earlier that day we went to the Mega Mall for the ribbon cutting and to introduce the newest invention for giving to charities. This is a giving machine where you can donate money to your favorite charity starting today until the end of December. 

I made my donation to Caritas, Unicef and the Purple Center Foundation. Representatives from these organizations were in attendance also. There are only four of these machines in the world and the Philippines was chosen to have one. 

We also let people know of the traditional awesome challenge for all of us to “light the world” in 25 ways over 25 days as we lead up to Christmas.More than 800,000 have already joined the challenge and that number keeps growing. 

 It’s a challenge meant to help us focus on incorporating more Christ-like attitudes and behaviors in honor of this Christmas season. How awesome is that! And what a great way to make sure we keep ourselves focused on the things that are most important during this holiday season rather than having our minds get caught up in all the meaningless busy hustle and bustle that can go on. 

Since its only November 24^ththat means we will be starting earlier today and make it a 32- day challenge but that’s okay because in the Philippines Christmas is celebrated starting in September so remember take the challenge and start your light up the world by doing acts of kindness each day. 

Con amor,
Vero