Friday, February 13, 2015

Valentine's Day

I am loved.
I have never lived a day in my life feeling unloved.
Sure, not everyone likes me,
but..
I have enough people who love me.
More than the people who don't.
People I love.
I hope no one that I love ever lives a day thinking that they are unloved.
Love.
Something that most people take for granted.
Something that thousands of kids live with out.
Something many people die without feeling.
Foster kids...
I work with many foster kids, some who have been in foster care their whole short life.
Some who are new to this situation.
Some who you can tell just feel completely destroyed and abandoned.
Some who keep to themselves.
Some that you can tell are dying to vent to someone but just aren't ready.
We have to assure them that they are loved.
That there are people for them to talk to.
People who won't judge them.
Or start rumors...
Some who understand the terrible things that are going on in their families.
For them, my heart breaks.
Shatters.
Completely shatters.
Orphans.
Who have never been loved.
Never kissed good night.
Never had their favorite meal on their birthday.
Never had a mommy kiss their boo boo to make it all better.
Only know the walls of their bedroom.
Some were abandoned unwillingly.
Like when their parents unexpectedly died.
Some were abandoned because they had a disability.
 
GOOD NEWS PEOPLE!!!
WE CAN CHANGE THIS FOR THEM.
We can help people bring them home.
We can bring them home.
We can fight for them.
FIGHT
FIGHT
FIGHT
for them
THEY ARE WORTH IT
Absolutely and totally worth it.
100% worth it
We can fight for foster kids and orphans in our country.
We can fight for orphans and foster kids in other countries.
Wherever they are,
WE CAN FIGHT FOR THEM
WE NEED TO FIGHT FOR THEM
They do not deserve to be forgotten.
 
So instead of spending money on flowers tomorrow,
take that money and give it to an orphan's adoption fund, a family who is adopting, a foster kids, foster families, foster homes.
Flowers only last a few days.
Love lasts forever.
Money helps children get the love that they deserve and have been missing out on.
Do your research.
Find a cause that you support.
Donate this Valentine's day instead of wasting money on flowers for a loved one.
 
Happy Valentine's Day!!!
Share your favorite cause with us!