How we use our 24 hrs in a day

How we use our 24 hours in each day determines our future course of actions in our lives. Each day should be filled with HOPE and a positive attitude that what we do will be for the good and betterment of ourselves and those around us.

HOPE "Of all the forces that make for a better world, none is so powerful as hope. With hope, one can work, one can dream. If you have hope, you have everything."

HOPE is also FAITH and each allows dreams and visualization of those thoughts that gives us convictions which leads to action and perseverance and persisitence toward those dreams. One can go from despair to overcoming adversity in life by first believing that one can and does have hope and faith that will give you a positive outcome to events and circumstances in one's life.

How we use the 24 hours in each day (the same 24 hours every human has each day) that we have been blessed to have on earth determines our daily future as well as the long term future. We should not waste nor ignore time because time cannot be replaced or added to in life. Once time has passed, it is gone from our lives. We can replace lost money, or a house that may have burned, or a wrecked car, or many other material things in life but one cannot ever replace time. You cannot go back. AGAIN: Use your 24 hours each day wisely and with comfort in the fact that with faith and hope one can believe that a positive outcome will be the end result to the events and circumstances in one's life.

Elf Louise

Louise Locker, aka Elf Louise, is dedicated to making children's wishes come true. She has given 40 years of joy and generosity. Last week during Christmas Elf Louise and her 4,000 volunteers wrapped gifts and put on 225 Santa suits and brought gifts to 21,700 children of 5,800 families in the San Antonio area.

Elf Louise was once anonymous but a local reporter, against Louise Lockers wishes to remain anonymous, told the city and world who she was and that she started the program as a 19 year old college student who actually was inspired by a Johnny Carson Show where Johnny read letters delivered to the post office for Santa from kids who wanted, but probably would not recieve, much for Christmas.

The next day in December of 1969 Elf Louise went to her post office in San Antonio and asked if she could read letters delivered to Santa so she might be able to find little girls who would like some of the dolls she had been given over the years but that were now just stacked up at home.

From this humble beginning more than one million children have now been visited by Elf Louise and Santa. The effort now has an annual budget of $300,000 and ninety-six percent of funds collected goes to buying toys for kids.

Louise Locker, aka Elf Louise, is now a private practice therapist in San Antonio who by her own admission is either a starry-eyed dreamer and optimist or both. But we know that more than one million gifts to children at Christmas over 40 years has provided a difference in the lives of many children who always believed that Santa would come and he did by many random acts of kindness from the volunteers and the personal effort of a once 19 year old college student who was inspired to give and to keep giving.

A side note: One never knows when any act of kindness will expend into millions of acts of kindness. We thank Elf Louise for her projects but reflect upon the fact that Johnny Carson inspired her actions. We not only should be those who extend acts of kindness but one who also inspires others to be kind to our fellow man.