The news is full of stories about people who need assistance in some way. Charities use commercials designed to tug at our hearts. We even see people on our street corner with signs asking for money and other things. We can, if not careful, see things as hopeless and totally overwhelming. We can become frustrated, throw up our hands and do nothing.

Today's message from the late President Ronald Regan acknowledges that there is overwhelming need in our world and that none of us can solve it all. Each one of us can, however, make a small dent and make someone's life a little better. This can come in many forms. It doesn't need to be money or a large well publicized financial contribution. It may be as simple as going out of the way to say a kind word to someone and mean it. It may be helping someone hauling groceries, pushing a car out of the ditch, replacing a burned out light bulb, giving them a ride or sitting down at dinner with them.

Something we think what we say or do is nothing. To the recipient, it may have been weighing heavy on their heart, causing the loss of sleep or other things. Just allowing them to vent, sincerely listening, most times without offering advice may be the exactly the help they needed..

Rather than worrying and becoming frustrated with the major needs of our world, let's, each one of us, be sensitive to what is going on in our immediate little world. Let's develop the mindset of and willingness to, help someone. If all of us, throughout the world, were to do this, just think of the number of people we could help. Together we can help everyone, one person at a time.