I have this urge to write today, about the compassion for volunteering and advocating. I can’t really tell you when I started to help others. I know I was really young, maybe before girls scouts or after. I have always had a procedure to do things the right way or it’s nothing at all. I carry that with me when I see people in need around me.
When I’m on this site, it makes me feel so wholesome to greet and interact with others whether for support, to write, or have an open ear for them I’ll be here to support the cause of this site. Not just for type 2’s but all types. We are all family here and family helps each other.
I go out with my blazer ready for stock of the 4 x 6’s tudiabetes cards, my laptop, clothes for all sizes, any can goods or dry foods, sometimes cleaning supplies all this to help what ever the need is. I really don’t have much but I’m rich in passion and love for others the way God tells us to be. Also extra bibles and literature I carry for others.
The life I had growing up wasn’t pretty, so I treat others with alot of respect no matter their economical status. I was once a young child of 12 - 14, when I was homeless by a man that was obsessed with me. The one that came thru for me was God and Jesus. When I needed a drink, there was the water hose in front of a house that I could drink from. I would scrap up a dollar or two and buy me 3 cans of tamales for a buck and eat it out of the can. My showers came when I had gym day at school. If not a wet rag was my bath. My clothes would be washed outside in a wash tub.
I know I’m not the only one who experiences this, but I believe that all the hurt and abandonment I went thru was an experience received to know what others are going thru. I thank God for that experience.
I was also a victim of child abuse and later domestic abuse in my early years as a young bride and mother. I won’t go thru that cause it is too graphic.
So now experiencing diabetes, it’s not going to destroy me just makes us stronger. So it gives me more passion to live by. Something more closer to be with the ones I help. I know their tears and fears too well. I’m there to wipe the tears of a child who is in court to hear the judge decide if he goes back to the abuser or to a fresh start in a foster home. I will advocate for the child to go to a foster home and when the child hugs me for saving them, I than turn to the abuser and tell him or her that they better never touch this child again or they answer to me.
With this diabetes, the devil thinks he can slow me down to protecting the children or adults…he’s dead wrong. As long as I have a heart and a soul who survived abuse since she was born, I will never give up. God never gives up on his people, so you should never give up.
I have my days when I need to slow down and I’ll rest but the next day I’m loaded and ready for what comes at me. Today with the beautiful sun shining so bright, while I was working outside…I felt so loved and that’s all I need. I’m thankful for what I have and can help others with what I can.
So this week I hope I can buy those glasses that I need for a year now since I lost the last pair. If I don’t I know the money will go to good cause helping someone else or caring for my sick grandchild who has kidney failure. In the end, I know that there are better things in life and that is the knowledge of seeing things peacefully and not let things destroy your spirit.
To all who reads this blog, just to let you know that you are being loved right now by me and by God and Jesus. May there be some peace in you today. And like I always say I’m sending lots of sunshine your way from heaven.
God bless you, Patti L.