Some friends offer to take your daughter to the park.
Others offer to pick up your son after basketball
practice and keep him for dinner.
Some offer to take all three of your kids
on the weekend while you enjoy a romantic weekend with your husband.
And those are all really nice, and kind and gentle
gestures. I appreciate them to no end.
She offers to take your son Bear to India on a humanitarian mission.
With
her own FIVE kids when he is sixteen. She does that for you because she loves
you and she does that for him because she loves her godson Bear to bits. And I think she recognizes a whole lot of goodness in him....
And more than anything..she won’t just say it… she will make it happen. I know she
will.
So right now it doesn’t matter if Bear does not even know
at this point, or matter if he would be interested or not, or matter that one
of the days down there is spent massaging the feet of Indians with leprosy, or
that it is like 120 degrees in the
summer, or that it costs so much money, or that you would worry way too much to
let him go that far away, or that I am not sure he could even eat banana rice
cakes with curry every day.
All that matters right now is how much her kindness, and
warmth and love made me feel. It was just so utterly sweet and intoxicating.
She is willing to give my child what I feel I cannot…for something that will
change his life forever.
She is sharing the very best part of herself and he will
get to have her.
It
was exactly the kind of love I needed right at this very moment .
My Sister Savvy……….words are not enough for your kind and
touching offer. The sweetest act of service I may have ever received.
And I know when she reads this she will think "Of course-it's no big deal I would love to take him with pleasure!!!"......but to me it is the biggest deal ever...just because that is the way it is ...each of our hearts sends and receives different things in different ways and this one is BIG.
And I know when she reads this she will think "Of course-it's no big deal I would love to take him with pleasure!!!"......but to me it is the biggest deal ever...just because that is the way it is ...each of our hearts sends and receives different things in different ways and this one is BIG.
With love, Your Lauren Kate
