Awoke very early this morning, grabbed some coffee and sat down at my computer; my first stop was to my blog page where a new post from Ashley..plus 3 quickly caught my eye; when I read it, well, it broke my heart.
Ashley tells of this precious little girl, named Maddie, who is dying from an inoperable brain tumor. If you can support this family, with a donation or in their quest to have Maddie go on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show”, please do so.
I’m putting up the link to Ashley’s page with the hope that anyone stopping by my blog will head there and do whatever they can.
http://www.ashleyplus3.com/2011/03/please-help.html
After visiting my fav bloggers, I clicked on the news of the day and sat in horror as I read about the earthquake and resulting tsunami hitting Japan, heading for the Hawaiian Islands, towards the states and beyond. I’ll admit to not being a deeply religious person, what reverence I hold for God is kept deep inside but this morning was different. I asked Him, out loud, to help all of these hurting, devastated beings and restore some element of calm, of peace, in their lives.
I’m always the first one to preach that God never gives any of us more than we can handle, especially when I relate this old story about a woman who complained to Him that the cross she carried in life was much too heavy of a burden. God had her stand next to Him and made all the crosses of the world pass her by, one by one, telling her to pick out the one she wanted. Finally, she picked out the smallest cross in the line; God looked over and said, “That was the cross you have been carrying all along.”
This is probably about as spiritual of a post that you will ever see from me but it was something I felt worth sharing.
Excuse me, God? There are so many who desperately need your Divine Intervention, when you aren’t too busy…please!
