I’ve posted about these two lovely ladies before – Emily and Emmie – they, along with their friend Oli, operate a charity in the U.K. called Live Life Then Give Life to raise organ donation awareness in the U.K. All three of them have cystic fibrosis – Emily and Oli have both received beautiful, new lungs. In the past few days, I’ve stumbled across a few precious things they’ve had a hand in…
This video is beautiful. Here is Emmie’s description:
A moving and eye-opening video from the UK charity - Live Life Then Give Life. It aims to create awareness of the number of children in the UK who are in desperate need of an organ transplant to save their lives. Set to a beautiful backing track, this slideshow highlights the plight of the children who die each year due to the chronic shortage of organ donors, in the hopes that more people will be motivated to sign up to give the Gift of Life to others
Watch it – go ahead and try not to cry… Can you imagine saving one of these precious lives when you leave this beautiful planet? Watch it – it will stay with you for the rest of the day…
And I’ll end this with a recent post on Emily’s pinkandsmiley blog. I love the way she writes – she makes me think, and she always makes me smile:
I heard this story on a factual, newsworthy programme* and I wanted to put it up here. Time and time again there are posts on the message boards I belong to about people crumbling and struggling, who see it as a sign of weakness that they need to reach out (yes I am aware of the slight pot, kettle, black situation here) so here is the little story; as a reminder to me, as a reminder to anyone else who ever struggles as to what exactly strength is. I know it's a little cheesy, but I just like the sentiment.
A little boy and his mother are out walking. The little boy spots a rock, points at it and asks his mum if she thinks he can lift it. "If you use all your strength then yes you can" his mum replies, so the little boy runs straight to the rock and grasps it firmly. He strains and struggles, and tries several times to lift it, but to no avail. He tells his mum he cannot lift it, but she replies again that he can, and then walks over to him where she also grasps the rock and together they lift it up. The mother explains to her son that using all your strength means enlisting the help of other people, of those around you who want to be there for you and support you.
So next time you are struggling....use all your strength.
*or it was on a cheesy American soap but I don't think that detracts from the point of it being rather good.
There… smiling???
