01/03/2022
There is a commercial that I’ve heard at least a dozen times that just breaks my heart. It’s for Saint Judes Children’s Hospital. The young girl says when she goes to bed she doesn’t know if she will wake up in the morning. She says the hardest part about having cancer is knowing you have it.
If I won the lottery, I would give half of my winnings to Saint Jude. But there would be one caveat: teach the children, their parents, their siblings, their teachers, their classmates, and their friends to not be afraid to be full of faith, To be kind, to trust God, to enjoy beauty, to enjoy life as a child full of wonder and innocence.
This young girl is in the best hospital for cancer treatment. Her anxiety should not be.  perhaps someone should be with her at bedtime so she can speak her thoughts aloud to someone who cares. Someone that’s not her mother or father so she won’t be afraid of hurting them or scaring them. It’s other peoples reaction that put the thoughts in her head. It’s societies reaction that scares her to close her eyes and sleep. Use the money to pay someone to read books to her at bedtime. Remember that? Or sing to her or let her sing to you. Or teach her how to play guitar or keyboard
Let her have sweet dreams.