Made with Love

FRIENDSHIP is the comfort that comes from knowing

that even when you feel all alone, you aren't.

 

When the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary happened, I just couldn't stop thinking about those children, children that could have been my child or any of our children. I thought about them for days wondering how they must of felt enduring such a tragedy and how those teachers and staff members kept those children safe, as if they were their own. Many heroes were born on that day.

 

Being a licensed counselor, who use to work with grieving children, adolescents and their families, I felt the strong need to reach out and find a way to offer support. The comfort of a loving hand and heart to those who are grieving can be more healing than the spoken word in times when we have none.

 

So Operation: Friendship for Newtown was the perfect way for me to send my hands to those grieving hearts when I couldn't be there in person. Operation: Friendship for Newtown is an organization that is collecting friendship bracelets in the schools colors of green and white for the children of Newtown to wear to know they are thought of by the world. They are currently still in the process of collecting 600 bracelets and won't stop until that number is reached. 

 

What better way to know that you have a friend in this world then by looking down on your wrist everyday and seeing a friendly reminder that a friend, even one you have never met before cares about you enough to use their own hands to create something for you...made with loving hands from the heart.

 

So, I hope this little heart that was made with all my love helps to bring a little comfort to another little heart. If my hands couldn't be there then my heart was.

 

Godspeed little heart...I hope you make a piece of someone else's heart smile at least for a moment.

 

True friendship is seen through the heart, not through the eyes.  Friedrich Nietzsche