Wishes are wonderful
March 23, 2008
When you wish upon a star……is it ever granted? When you close your eyes…just what is it you are wishing for ? Is it for yourself? Your children? What would you say if I told you that a wish can be and is granted every 40 minutes of every day, to a child with fragile medical needs? That precious miracle of granting wishes is precisely what the make-a-wish foundation does. Make-a-wish is for children over the age of 2 1/2 years old and who are diagnosed with a life-threatening medical condition. Now, for a moment, imagine a life where your routine is focused on medical intervention. Your surroundings are foreign, procedures are invasive. The pain is both emotional and physical. You look out the window, and long to be like the stranger on the street; running, jumping, and free from medical concerns. Imagine you are 6 years old, or 9 or 15. Now imagine it is your child enduring such struggles just to get through another day where the quality of life is less than perfect or ideal. Now imagine that a group of people, can alleviate all that pain and suffering, and replace it with joy, love, and magic—if only for a day. The wish experience may only last hours, but the positive memories are relived everyday. The mission of the make-a-wish foundation is to affirm life and hope.
On the make-a-wish foundation website, the visitor can read recent wishes. While I was reading these wishes, I found them to be so simple, so sweet, so endearing. The wish of a teenage girl to have a sweet 17th birthday or a 7 year old to ride a horse. Simple wishes. Yet the impact on the child and family is tremendous. There are so many ways to help and support the amazing work done by the make-a-wish foundation. You can donate money, volunteer time or talents, attend entertaining fundraisers, donate frequent flier miles, or adopt a wish. Tonight, when you look to the moon, and you tell your children to wish on a star, please say an extra wish that all the children will get their wish granted. I pray that these medically fragile children are all able to experience their dream, their hope, their wish. For there is no one more deserving than the children served by the make-a-wish foundation.
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Kelley,
I didn’t know you did this! That is so nice of you! You have to tell me anything I can help with. I would love to. You were talking about how simple kids wishes are…..I used to take care of the diabetic kids that attended a regular summer camp. I always asked them one thing they wished for and one boy said that even though he was diabetic, he wished that some day he could ride a bike like a normal boy. I had to hold back my tears so bad.
Well, I will see you at school or call. Zack and Megan really really want a playdate!
xoxo
Steph