Well the big news is that tomorrow I leave for China! I will be working (volunteering) with orphans with very very significant special needs and who are actually in their final months/weeks/days/hours of life. I have no doubt this experience will be stretching and at times make me question the fairness of life, but as I said to someone today, if the worst thing that can happen to me is sadness and incredible grief at their death and the best thing for these children happens, which is to feel loved during their final days, then it's a sacrifice worth making! In actual fact, who can call spending your weeks blowing bubbles with, singing to and rocking a baby in their final hours a sacrifice, in truth it's a privilege!
I will be taking my laptop and hope to blog through it all! Thanks to Shannon for telling me I can email blog posts :)
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I wish you the best....
I hope you are well... I will look forward to watching your journey.
wow. what an incredible thing to do. i am very impressed with your willingness to do that. safe travels and write again soon!
(and thanks for your very sweet comment. :) i've missed our correspondence. i promise to blog more if you do!)
Holy cow! What an amazing journey! Safe and fulfilling travels and I look forward to hearing all about it.
I will pray for you daily my friend. Nothing is more noble and needed than this journey you are making. To know love and kindness in the final moments of life is truly a blessing that you will be giving these little ones.
You never cease to amaze me. I am glad that you are blogging again. I'll be here watching for you.
well hello my friend! nice to see a post here - and why am I NOT surprised that you are throwing yourself into such a selfless and incredibly demanding effort? sounds just exactly like you.
please do keep us posted.
To say I admire you for what you are going to do is an understatement. Wishing you strength and joy in your journey.
You have such a great big amazing heart
have a great trip
Lauri
Leap of faith
You know you are in my prayers sweet friend.... thank you for being the arms of Jesus for these precious little ones..... I will be praying for your heart... but oh, how I will be praising Him that He has sent someone to love them and to grieve for them when they journey home...
God's Speed......
Love,
Daleea
As someone who has held many dying babies when no family was around, I can attest to not only how difficult it is, but what an amazing blessing it is to be the one to comfort a child in his/her last minutes on this earth.
You'll be an angel to many!
HEY!!!!!! Gees, I step away from blog reading and you leave Ontario0 AGAIN! LOL
Jow are you, chica? :)
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