The Bright Spot Report: The YWAP Hope Trust


The YWAP Thanksgiving Celebration is Tuesday 11-22-11. All are welcome and there is no cost. Generous people counted the cost and shared their hearts in giving.

Today is Day 5 of The YWAP Hope Trust - A Study In Giving and Receiving.

The COST of NOT GIVING

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 is a very special YWAP Day. We will open the doors of the Holy Cross Youth Center for our 8th Annual Thanksgiving Community Celebration. EVERYONE is welcome to enjoy a free turkey dinner. Most of the people who prepare the dinner are volunteers. Most of the clean up crew will be young people volunteering to help their community. It is another opportunity to give. If we don't keep our young people busy in safe, positive and challenging activities, they will become idle and susceptible to damaging at risk behaviors.

Young people who are not given the opportunity to give

extract a large cost from the community.


Young people from YWAP were given the opportunity to help The Teacher's Desk set up their store. Teacher's are given the opportunity to receive classroom supplies. Students are given the opportunity to receive better tools for their education. They receive better grades that gives them more confidence. Giving is reciprocal.

When water is contained in a pond without a current that is out-flowing, the water becomes stagnant. A rushing river carries life sustenance downstream. A heart that is not given the opportunity to give becomes stagnant and eventually calcifies. The heart is a muscle that needs to be growing through giving.

A heart that does not give will eventually undergo atrophy. The cost of not giving is a hardened heart.

James 5:1 The Message
[ Destroying Your Life from Within ] And a final word to you arrogant rich: Take some lessons in lament. You'll need buckets for the tears when the crash comes upon you. Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment.


Families are given the opportunity to share with other families. Children carry the seeds of giving in the rushing river of their souls. As they grow, the seeds of giving germinate and are dispersed through their actions.

If you have not lived a life that has permitted you to learn about the extravagant bounties of giving, start with one small act of giving. Give somebody a compliment. Give somebody a smile. Give silence when you are angry. Give a penny. Give a positive thought. Give a prayer that is only spoken within your soul. Give somebody the opportunity to give to you - ask someone for help. Too often we do things on our own that were meant to be shared blessings. By not giving somebody the opportunity to give help, the cost to you will be a growing selfish pride. Nobody needs to know that you are giving. Your heart will know and the kingdom of God resides within you.

Ephesians 3:20 The Message
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.

Philippians 2:11-13 The Message
That energy is God's energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure.

Philippians 4:23 The Message
Receive and experience the amazing grace of the Master, Jesus Christ, deep, deep within yourselves.

1 John 2:26 The Message
I've written to warn you about those who are trying to deceive you. But they're no match for what is embedded deeply within you—Christ's anointing, no less!

1 John 4:11 The Message
My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us—perfect love!

Time is of the essence to become a giver that freely gives the perfect love that is planted within you. Thanks for you time. Go do something nice for somebody. Jesus loves you and so do I.