As anathema to me, chain letters rarely bear reading much less forwarding.
Nonetheless from the unceasings news din and cacophony of the internets with outrages du jour in flavors for every taste in which I submerge myself, sometimes someone else's words speak to my heart, reminding joy can come from seemingly unceasing pain in lives of all God's children.
[If you weren’t an academic, you might define happiness as the experience of being fully alive. To know grace, and despair, and the kind of hardness you have to learn to stand against; to watch your family fail you when you need them the most, and have your ex-husband look around, shrug his shoulders, and hold out his hand to help you up again...
These are things you’d never know if you hadn’t had your daughter. Things you wouldn’t have had to know, and learn the hard way, bitterly.
If the medical resident hadn’t sat down while you held your baby girl in the neonatal intensive care unit and said...
...But the answer is, you are going to go home and do the best you can to make a life out of what you’ve been given.] http://jenniferlawler.com/wordpress/?p=747
Carnations for Jessica: http://jenniferlawler.com/wordpress/?p=751
So do not forward this to 5 friends, and you will not receive any $.
Do not send to 5 prayer buddies, and God will not answer any of your prayers unless She and/or He wishes.
Instead, look into yout heart and ask if you (You yourself and not any he or she or it or them you belong to, as Dylan sang) if YOU yourself can do anything--any 1 smallest damn thing like smile and listen to a child; buy a homeless person lunch, for Goddess' sake--to make the world a better place now, today.
Please ask your friends to read about and pray for Jessica. May the mother and daughter story teach us all to drink joy from the bitter cup we all sup, Life.
Found "For Jesssica" from link at Suburban Guerilla.
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