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Throughout my life I have been raised in the Catholic faith. I have attended a private Catholic school since kindergarten and will attend a Catholic High School. I have been taught to follow the great commandment, love your neighbors as yourself, and treat others how I would want to be treated. I have also been made aware that not everybody is living in abundance and that many people are living in poverty. Since I am more fortunate and can give I have been taught to donate my time and money in any way I can to help the less fortunate. There are many organizations that help others and receive nothing in return other than the satisfaction of benefiting other's lives, Two Feet of Love in Action is the mindset behind almost all of these organizations.

The first foot in the mindset of two feet of Love in Action stands for charity. Charity is responding to the immediate needs of those who are less fortunate. Charity is giving clothing, food, shelter, clothing, and others basic necessities to those who need it now. Trough charity people can benefit immensely, but they can not receive charity their whole life. Charity is only provided when the person receiving help is in dire need of something vital to life, and can't be something that is always there as a safety net. Charity is usually the first step when trying to help someone climb out of poverty for example, because once he/she has what is necessary to live, they can then focus on what is necessary to live properly and with ease.

The second of the two feet symbolizes Social Justice. Social justice is looking at the root causes of problems that effect many people and trying to address some of the polices structures and laws that cause these problems to exist. Unemployment is noticeably one of these problems, and needs to be addressed. Two Feet of Love in Action tells people that in order to address a problem you need to hit it at the core. Instead of giving someone a job, educate them, so that they may get jobs on their own, and gain experience. Just as the saying goes, "Give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever." This is the thinking behind the first foot, Social Justice.

Behind all major organizations such as Good Will, Salvation Army, and Metropolitan Ministries is the mindset of Two Feet of Love in Action. It is the mindset that charity and Social Justice should always be at the core when helping others, and it gives good ways on how we can live as disciples of Christ. Charity and Social Justice are important to our Catholic faith because through charity and social justice we can help others, as God wants us to do. They also conform to the Catholic Social Teaching that of Rights and Responsibilities. This states that every person has the right to those things required for a decent human life. It also states that as Catholics it is our job to provide these things to all people to the best of our abilities. So charity and social justice not only remind us of what our earthly mission is, but they also teach us how we can grow closer to God through serving others.

Two Feet of Love in Action is what makes helping others easy and through this mindset I too have helped others. Whether I am volunteering at Metropolitan Ministries or Feeding America, it is evident that people need help. I remember a recent trip to Feeding America when we were handing out Thanksgiving food items as charity and a woman being helped broke down in tears. She claimed that we had made her holiday and changed her life. At first I shook it off and figured that she was exaggerating, but the more I thought about that moment the more I realized we had made and difference in this woman's life and that even through an act as small as giving food to those in need we can change the world. Over all Two Feet in Love and Action has changed the world already and it is through the efforts of people like ourselves. I realize now that I can change the world and plainly through the simple mindset of Two Feet of Love in Action.