It seems like every day is Valentines’ Day around here. Packages come in from all over the country filled with supplies to help the homeless. We send a Thank You letter to the sender letting them know their package was received.

Today two of the packages had no return address. A secret Valentine if you will.

Thank You. GOD has blessed all of you for helping. That’s the greatest Valentine of all.

A Masonic Lodge, from Goshen, NY, will be here in Hop Bottom, PA on Saturday to bring back a load of sleeping bags for their homeless neighbors.

Tuesday, Jim and I were in Philadelphia delivering to St. Johns Hospice.

Wednesday we made three stops in New York City with the students from Keystone College. We all learned a lot at the Bowery Mission while having lunch with the residents. Next, we were off to a hospice for HIV inflicted women where we left bed linens.

Our last stop was at Tompkins Square Park where a group of Churches from Long Island feed the poor and homeless twice a week. We supply them with emergency sleeping bags.

A Police Officer in a patrol car told us there was a man on the other side of the park that could really use one. I told him that the man would have one today. Amen

As many of you know My Brothers’ Keeper Quilt Group is a, 501c3. There is no membership fee or obligation of any kind.  Our hope is that people with compassion will step up to help our homeless neighbors by making simple emergency sleeping bags (fondly called Ugly Quilts) to keep them alive on cold nights or until they can be helped or healed by others in our society.

Because this is a cost free effort we do have a problem. We need to hear from you, or your group, so we can keep in touch. Please contact us at least once a year. Send pictures, articles and any information for Ann, our historian, to post in our log. Marge needs names and contact information. It is important when someone wants to join a group or donate supplies.  She makes sure we get your group on the web-site. It will bring you volunteers and supplies.

Thanks, to all of you who labor with a joyful heart.