This week has involved a lot of soul-searching for me. As I have shared in previous columns, it is my firm belief that it is our obligation to help those who are following in our footsteps.

There is no limit to the ways we can contribute to a stronger community. There are many ways to serve – coaching a youth sports team, volunteering for the PTA, participating in a committee for an organization or simply lending a hand to a friend or neighbor in need.

Leo C. Rosen said, “I think the purpose in life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honorable, to be compassionate. It is, after all, to matter: To count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.”