October2013 Edition - Hatfield Heath Village Magazine

MAN WITH
A VAN
The Vicar
Writes
Are you MAD?
Do you want to be MAD?
“Greed is good” was the mantra, and somehow it crept
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from the script of “Wall Street” into our lives and our
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For most of us, however, greed is not good. We shun
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the excesses seen in banker bonuses and tax evasion.
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We try to be unselfish, and we look to find ways that
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we can help others, if we can find the time and the
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money – both of which may be in short supply.
Frankly that is MAD – Making A Difference – and
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there are more people who are M.A.D. than we realise.
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I suspect you may be one of them.
The thing is, it is not something that is particularly
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easy on your own – it is a lot more fun and effective
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when we can make a difference together – where we
can share ideas and encourage each other.
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There are people in our village who do a lot of
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‘making a difference’, and some of the results from
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this can be seen in our community, but there is a lot
more going on that cannot be seen so easily, such as
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ensuring clean water in Africa, or helping vulnerable
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families (you know who you are!)
And there are many others who want to get involved
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(perhaps in some very small way) but cannot see an
easy way in – people who want to help, a bit, but are
worried about finding they have volunteered to do far
more than they really want to.
We would like to facilitate some way of helping
people to make more of a difference, in areas where
they most want to see a difference take place. For
some, this may be in some small way. For others it
may involve a much grander scheme about the issues
that are really important to them. We thought that the
Fun Day in October Half Term best way to start this would be to ask you about what
you are doing and thinking.
Tuesday 29th October 2013 If you are currently making a difference, if you’d like
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to be making a difference, if you just want to think
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else who is making a difference – please let us know.
Fill in the short questionnaire, either here (paper
replies can be sent to the Vicarage, Broomfields) or on
line, and we will try and work out a good way to take
this forward and report it in the next issue of the
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magazine. If there is enough interest, perhaps we can
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get together and share ideas and encourage each other
a bit. What do you think? Is that MAD?
Stewart Gibbs Vicar
Contact us:
This survey can be completed on line at:
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