Brave Little Sister

Good morning.  Wow! Another cloudy day with only partly sunny.  Nope!  It is a partly sunny day being disturbed with a few clouds.  The temperature will come close to 80 degrees and I will just bet there is someone out there who would love to trade places with us!  Today I would like to share a story about courage and determination.  There are a lot of people who never climb high mountains with ropes but daily they climb those mountains just to know that life is still good and real.  I know a young lady who battles daily with an incurable type of cancer and she has no promise of tomorrow or a future.  She doesn’t have to dream of finishing college or a wedding dress but she does.  She was determined to graduate from high school.  After all, that is the least anyone can do in today’s world, right.  I have seen the same struggle in others and they never gave in and they never gave up because they did not want to exist, they wanted to live and enjoy the day, the week, the month, and even the year.

She has a special way of making everyone stop and listen.  Well most people anyway.  There are always those who are so ungrateful that they never see past themselves to listen to courage.  Maybe it is because they have none of their own.  Finding our eyesight out of negativity is a dedication to practice what we know in our mind is correct.  I love this young lady and I admire her courage.   She has battled since she was a child and she is half way through her senior year of high school.  Having a child who is ill takes a toll on the family also and this young lady’s Mother has made her way through it all also.  Every day is not a good day but every day is good because our “Little Sister” is still with us.  No, she is not related to me but she is a little sister, daughter, niece and granddaughter.  She is now a girl-friend so hats off to her.

She harbors her hurt but never meanness or retribution.  A ball of tears maybe and time alone to put everything into prospective but not to retaliate or hurt anyone back.  There are very few people she can completely depend on and they are truly big people with their own courage.  She has the ability to love even when she doesn’t feel loved and yes she has been criticized and bullied by her peers.  What people fear or don’t understand becomes a problem and they often take it out on the person who is reminding them of these fears.  I once watched a movie about a homeless man who lived under a university library and through many ordeals he ended up living in a house with four college students.  One of these students felt that live owed him and his father could buy him out of any problem so he lived in misery and criticism of others.  One morning he arrived in the kitchen and opened the fridge, took out the milk carton, sniffed it and returned it to the fridge. The homeless man had prepared a delicious breakfast that others had shared and he offered this student breakfast as well.  Then he removed his socks from the microwave and with great flair proceeded to put them on his feet.  The young student realized this and criticized him with the same great flair.  The homeless man made a statement that, to me, was the most memorable in the movie.  He said, “I know what is wrong with you.  You feel the way I look.” 
Well, back to our little sister story.  She has already decided to become a nurse because it is a world she has grown up in going for treatment and surgery.  She has seen first-hand how important nurses are and taking care of others is a heart calling.  I truly salute her courage and my guess is she will be with us for many years and enrich many, many lives.  Thank you little sister for showing all of us how to turn clouds into sunshine.  I love you!