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gives me hope
Thursday, February 18, 2010 @ 11:19:00 PM
I work with kindergarten children, and when a little girl wet her pants, we decided to give her dress up clothes to wear. She was very upset and embarrassed so a little boy in the class put on a cinderella dress and held her hand the rest of the day, saying "look - everyone's laughing at ME!" His kindness gmh --- I volunteered at my local hospital and saw this old couple; a man sat in a chair, holding his wife's hand on the bed and I heard her say, "Promise you won't waste your last years missing me when I'm gone, Bill?" and he smiled and said, "Sure. Promise you won't blame me when I break it?" They GMH. --- A few months ago, one of my best childhood friends died of cancer. Devastated, I called my closest friend, and although he had to study for midterms, I talked to him the phone for almost an hour. About half an hour after we hung up, he showed up at my door out of the blue. A teenager biking 15 km in the pouring rain at 10pm on a weeknight GMH --- Today, there was a blood drive in my school. As the nurse was putting betadine on my arm, I look over to see on of the senior girls from my class. She is terrified of needles and was trembling as she gave blood. When I asked her she gave a simple response: Fear shouldn't stop you from doing something right. People like her GMH. --- My father was diagnosed with cancer and passed away 4 years ago. Recently, I stopped by his online blog. I found out my son had been leaving him comments, saying things like how he missed him, and how he is studying hard in school, and that he would study hard to find a cure to cancer so that people wont miss their grandfather like he does. GMH --- When my sister was younger she came home from school one day and demanded I take her to the library so she could get books on sign language. I asked why? She told me there was a new kid at school who was deaf and she wanted to befriend him. Today I stood beside her at their wedding watching her sign "I DO". GMH --- Today is my friend's 16th birthday, he died on the 22nd of December 2009. I found out a few days ago that he passed away when shots were fired after he saved a 15 year old girl from being raped by 3 men. She got away. His selflessness GMH. --- ![]() ![]() --- back to the top? 0 comments
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