One thing blogs have helped accomplish is the instantaneous circulation of news, events and stories around the world online. In much the same way eBay has done for buying and selling products, blogs have opened the way for the mass exchange of information and ideas to a limitless audience. I don’t think there is a better use for blogs then to raise awareness, cultivate truth and educate us all about the world around us. Instead of global syndicated news sources selling us their interpretation of our world, blogs provide millions of individual voices that are the world around us. The unedited stories of each of us that give us a unified purpose, a cause. Cause is defined as “a basis for an action or response; a reason. The interests of a person or group engaged in a struggle.” A hundred billion different lives living and struggling simultanously each day in The Great Struggle. Blogs unify the cause and make us all part of something greater then ourselves.

And so I pass on to you the story of Sean Voisen — a young man who survived leukemia and has been in remission for two years. He is running a marathon to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. His goal is to raise $1,500, and he needs your help. As a reward, every dollar you donate buys one ticket into a raffle for an iPod Shuffle.

Just today, make your cause… your reason, something greater then yourself.

Visit voisen.org/donate.

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