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this 5-year-old girl battles with neuroblastoma and chemo-induced leukemia - Myelodisplastic Syndrome (cancer). PLEASE check out her website: http://taylorlove.org/# it would mean so much <3
Taylor Love we will never stop believing in you.
it doesn’t matter how many reblogs this will get, but I just wanted to share it with you guys!
Reading her story…she needs prayers guys. This little girl and her family. God will give them the strength they need to overcome this battle.
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“I met Lola Purping during our “photo-walk” at Binondo today. She was sitting quietly at the gutter right outside the San Lorenzo Ruiz Church. I couldn’t help but noticed the big lump on her face that she is trying to cover with her hair. She would throw some shy glances at me perhaps because she felt uneasy that a big guy carrying a huge camera is staring at her. I smiled at her and she timidly smiled back at me. I sat besides her and tried to strike a conversation.
Lola Purping is a street dweller from Samar. She is about 70 years old with poor eyesight and carrying a large tumor near her face. She and her grandchildren would sleep with empty stomachs on the streets where and whenever the night would catch them. I told her that she is a bit old to take care of her grandchildren. She told me that her children left her without a choice as they went to Cotobato and never returned until now.
2 days ago, she lost her few valuables, money and medicines to a pickpocket as she was going out of the church where she stays from morning till afternoon.
I asked her if I can take her photo and put her story on my blog hoping that some kind souls might be able to offer some help – any help. With tears on her eyes, she nodded.
If you happen to pass by San Lorenzo Ruiz Church in Binondo, you might see Lola Purping quietly sitting along the gutter when she is not inside the church praying. Please offer a kind smile to her.
I would appreciate if you can share this and make it viral until it reaches the heart of someone capable of and willing to help her and her grand children.”life in the philippines is so sad. 80 year olds out on the street, 3 year olds tryna survive. makes me wanna cry whenever i go home. ;(
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I’ve come to believe in Tim Tebow, but not for what he does on a football field, which is still three parts Dr. Jekyll and two parts Mr. Hyde.
No, I’ve come to believe in Tim Tebow for what he does off a football field, which is represent the best parts of us, the parts I want to be and so rarely am.
Who among us is this selfless?
Every week, Tebow picks out someone who is suffering, or who is dying, or who is injured. He flies these people and their families to the Broncos game, rents them a car, puts them up in a nice hotel, buys them dinner (usually at a Dave & Buster’s), gets them and their families pregame passes, visits with them just before kickoff (!), gets them 30-yard-line tickets down low, visits with them after the game (sometimes for an hour), has them walk him to his car, and sends them off with a basket of gifts.
Home or road, win or lose, hero or goat.
Remember last week, when the world was pulling its hair out in the hour after Tebow had stunned the Pittsburgh Steelers with an 80-yard OT touchdown pass to Demaryius Thomas in the playoffs? And Twitter was exploding with 9,420 tweets about Tebow per second? When an ESPN poll was naming him the most popular athlete in America?
Tebow was spending that hour talking to 16-year-old Bailey Knaub about her 73 surgeries so far and what TV shows she likes.
“Here he’d just played the game of his life,” recalls Bailey’s mother, Kathy, of Loveland, Colo., “and the first thing he does after his press conference is come find Bailey and ask, ‘Did you get anything to eat?’ He acted like what he’d just done wasn’t anything, like it was all about Bailey.”
More than that, Tebow kept corralling people into the room for Bailey to meet. Hey, Demaryius, come in here a minute. Hey, Mr. Elway. Hey, Coach Fox.
Even though sometimes-fatal Wegener’s granulomatosis has left Bailey with only one lung, the attention took her breath away.
“It was the best day of my life,” she emailed. “It was a bright star among very gloomy and difficult days. Tim Tebow gave me the greatest gift I could ever imagine. He gave me the strength for the future. I know now that I can face any obstacle placed in front of me. Tim taught me to never give up because at the end of the day, today might seem bleak but it can’t rain forever and tomorrow is a new day, with new promises.”
I read that email to Tebow, and he was honestly floored.
“Why me? Why should I inspire her?” he said. “I just don’t feel, I don’t know, adequate. Really, hearing her story inspires me.”
It’s not just NFL defenses that get Tebowed. It’s high school girls who don’t know whether they’ll ever go to a prom. It’s adults who can hardly stand. It’s kids who will die soon.
For the game at Buffalo, it was Charlottesville, Va., blue-chip high school QB Jacob Rainey, who lost his leg after a freak tackle in a scrimmage. Tebow threw three interceptions in that Buffalo game and the Broncos were crushed 40-14.
“He walked in and took a big sigh and said, ‘Well, that didn’t go as planned,’” Rainey remembers. “Where I’m from, people wonder how sincere and genuine he is. But I think he’s the most genuine person I’ve ever met.”
There’s not an ounce of artifice or phoniness or Hollywood in this kid Tebow, and I’ve looked everywhere for it.
Take 9-year-old Zac Taylor, a child who lives in constant pain. Immediately after Tebow shocked the Chicago Bears with a 13-10 comeback win, Tebow spent an hour with Zac and his family. At one point, Zac, who has 10 doctors, asked Tebow whether he has a secret prayer for hospital visits. Tebow whispered it in his ear. And because Tebow still needed to be checked out by the Broncos’ team doctor, he took Zac in with him, but only after they had whispered it together.
And it’s not always kids. Tom Driscoll, a 55-year-old who is dying of brain cancer at a hospice in Denver, was Tebow’s guest for the Cincinnati game. “The doctors took some of my brain,” Driscoll says, “so my short-term memory is kind of shot. But that day I’ll never forget. Tim is such a good man.”
This whole thing makes no football sense, of course. Most NFL players hardly talk to teammates before a game, much less visit with the sick and dying.
Isn’t that a huge distraction?
“Just the opposite,” Tebow says. “It’s by far the best thing I do to get myself ready. Here you are, about to play a game that the world says is the most important thing in the world. Win and they praise you. Lose and they crush you. And here I have a chance to talk to the coolest, most courageous people. It puts it all into perspective. The game doesn’t really matter. I mean, I’ll give 100 percent of my heart to win it, but in the end, the thing I most want to do is not win championships or make a lot of money, it’s to invest in people’s lives, to make a difference.”
So that’s it. I’ve given up giving up on him. I’m a 100 percent believer. Not in his arm. Not in his skills. I believe in his heart, his there-will-definitely-be-a-pony-under-the-tree optimism, the way his love pours into people, right up to their eyeballs, until they believe they can master the hopeless comeback, too.
Remember the QB who lost his leg, Jacob Rainey? He got his prosthetic leg a few weeks ago, and he wants to play high school football next season. Yes, tackle football. He’d be the first to do that on an above-the-knee amputation.
Hmmm. Wonder where he got that crazy idea?
“Tim told me to keep fighting, no matter what,” Rainey says. “I am.”
- Rick Reilly, SportsCenter
This is fantastic
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Have you ever made a mistake? Most Christian teens have a list of things they have done in their lives that they would just love to go back and change. Some of those things may seem unforgivable, and some Christian teens believe that God can never love them because of those actions. However, God’s love is bigger and better than we can imagine. We are all imperfect. We are all sinners. We all do the wrong thing from time to time. However, God loves us anyhow. Don’t believe it? Take a closer look at these five people in the Bible and how God showed his love for them despite their imperfections:
Jacob:
Despite the fact that Jacob basically came out of the womb wheeling and dealing, God chose him as part of the lineage of Jesus. In his youth he caused so much trouble at home his family had to send him off to live with his grandparents to keep the peace. God eventually sent an angel to get through to Jacob. He worked and worked with Jacob until he became an amazing man of faith. Remember, God never gives up.
Further Reading: Genesis 25:19-34, Genesis 27:1-36, Genesis 32David:
Most Christian teens know the stories of how great David was. He defeated Goliath. He was a superb King and a great military leader. He was chosen by God to replace Saul, who was not such a great king. Yet even David fell prey to his own imperfections. David, who gave us so many words of wisdom, gave into lust and had an affair with a women, then lied and had her husband killed. He faced the consequences of those actions, because God is a father and gives consequences for sin. However, God did not love David any less for his sin.
Further Reading: 2 Samuel 11-12
Peter:
We all know Peter was one of the Apostles, and we also know the story of his greatest screw-up. He was told by Jesus that he would deny him three times, and Peter truly believed that he would never deny that he was a follower of Christ. Yet, when it came down to it, Peter chickened out and did exactly what Jesus said he would. Did Jesus tell Peter that fact to make him feel bad? No. He told Peter to let him know that he loved him no matter what. God’s love and forgiveness are so much greater than we can imagine.
Further reading: Mark 14:72
Eve:
Eve was the first person to ever sin. She was tempted by Satan, and she fell into it. Most Christian teens are tempted, and there are few that (at some point) don’t give into sin. Again, God provided some serious consequences by making her and Adam leave the garden, but He never told them that He stopped loving them. In fact, it was God’s love and forgiveness that allowed them to live and give birth to a planet full of people. It is God’s strength that can help us all overcome temptation
Further Reading: Genesis 3:21-24
Thomas:
Thomas doubted. That was his big mistake, and how we got the saying, “He’s such a doubting Thomas.” Still, Jesus did not come back and tell Thomas off for not believing. Instead he offered Thomas His hands as proof that it was really Him and that He had risen again. There are times when most Christian teens have doubts. However, like Thomas, Christian teens need to bring those doubts to God in order to get true answers.
Further Reading: John 20:26-28
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