At HOCT, no one is really rich. We do not have rich sponsors that dwell in castles and drive expensive cars. We have people who struggle to live, who live in harmony and pure morality, we have people who know what it means – not to have. We have people who understand that giving is receiving.

It is not only due to the religion that I follow, that I believe in Karma. Karma is a very brutal reality, that translates into a very simple equation: you reap what you sow. If you are generous, it will be repaid to you a thousand times more. How do I know this? I know this because I see this each and every day, in my work and through talking to people.

My friend Sunny Staša is by no means rich. What is more, life has thrown all sorts of things at her: a fragile health (which is a large understatement), natural disasters destroying her house, loss of her father, and many other struggles. But Stasa has kept a pure heart and, sometimes, out of the little she has, she sends me a small amount to buy food for a few children that do not have anything.

Many people send one-time donations; but Stasa’s gesture has brought me to tears, because she is really, really struggling. I should be the one helping her, and instead, she is the one helping HOCT.

And this is how grace manifests itself in our wounded world, this is how this world heals and becomes better.
This is how you become reach: when you are like Stasa.

PS: Stasa does not know I was going to write this post, so I hope she will not yell at me too much!