Simply offering to help may make those who offer feel good, but it does little to actually help
Experience with similar circumstances brought a rush of generous offers to help, but those offers that really helped and live with me today came from a disparate group of people who personally did something, rather than just make the offer.
A friend visited to pray with and for me, something I felt was worthless, but still a beautiful thing to do; former Shepparton CEO, Bill Jaboor (above), took me on three occasions to different city projects; Shepparton court solicitor, Brian Birrell, took me out for coffee and Labor Party enthusiast, the late Bernie Moran, called at my home to talk politics and Shepparton events.
They did not ask if they could help, rather they just helped.
Others were equally helpful, but in a memorable way it is the unsolicited help coupled with a thoughtful awareness of needs that seem to be the richest.
The landscape of Jodie’s life was irrevocably changed when she and her bicycle were hit by a car west of Mooroopna on March 19 and while no doubt many have been helping, others more remote for her Tatura family can help by joining Sunday’s “Ride for Jodie”.
The ride, to Tatura and back, starts at Friar’s Café in Fyrers St at 9am and as it is a totally sponsored event, the $50 entry will go toward supporting Jodie’s family. She and her husband Scott have four children.
A shorter ride will cater those unenthusiastic about covering that distance and a purely local ride to also support Jodie is being organized for Sunday by the group eager to see the town understand and address a low-energy future, Tatura Transition.
Sunday’s ride is an opportunity for people to provide Jodie and her family with unsolicited help.
