This is a picture of my newest unecessary online purchase. The one where you are just haphazardly browsing and see this blog that makes you stop breathing and combined with other events that don't really hit you at the time, but all of a sudden catch up with you when added with a story like this one...you just go.
and you buy this pendant with a simple word. a day of the week really.
but in reality is a name. of a baby. that lived and breathed. and has a mommy and a daddy and a family that prayed every day that the mean illness that ultimately took her life would grant them some mercy and let their precious little angel live....that simple word somehow means a little more.
over a year ago i started bloggin about a little fighter that was fighting cancer. And to see her HUGE eyes and abundant smile you could not help but fall in love with her. You can go read about her yourself here and i did. right off the bat. At the time i was going through a hard time, but hearing her story made me stop and pray to my God and say "thank you" . it made me kiss my kids a little hard and reminded me to shut up when i wanted to complain about my self enduced problems that in the grand scheme of life mean nothing,
The pendant is only about ten bucks. and i can wear it often and tell her story when people ask me "who Tuesday is"
that's not even a tank of gas
or 4 days of buying Dr.Pepper before you head to work
or even worse two Starbucks coffees while late on the way to work
it's not a week worth of school lunches
or a weeks worth of cable, or your cell phone bill
really, what is ten bucks? when its doing something in the name of a cause bigger and better than yourself???
just saying.
really glad i could do a small thing
in the name of a bigger purpose
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