The Heart Tree

Barbara: I was incredibly moved this week by a community gesture and had to share it with you in case you might also be inspired and moved by it. One of our neighbours suffered a terrible loss recently and a young family was left reeling. Their community reached out to them in many of the traditional ways: by making sure there was plenty of food in the freezer and helping hands as needed.

But this week, they went one step further. Inspired by a story they read on a blog about a group of women in Massachusetts, several of them got together and crafted many dozen fabric hearts and then, in the middle of the night, strung them up on the trees in this family's front and back yards. (…Just writing this makes me well up...) In the morning, the family woke up and found their special gift of community love.

Angels are everywhere.