Except from an E-mail sent by the Webmaster
to Madeline O'Connor.
Dear Madeline:
These children are worth loving and being patient for, as I'm sure that one day when they realize that someone put a page on the 'net' from halfway across the world for them, true love was in it.
As I was cropping their faces for individual photos for the website, I got closeups of their expressions and I remembered my most fearful moments as a child, when we'd go shopping and I'd get lost in a crowd, I remembered the panic and terror of needing to see the loving and familiar faces of my parents. I was scared, yet somehow I knew that they would come for me and find me. However, when I saw the faces of these children, I began to weep as I put together the website, because I knew that in these hearts and minds there is a state of chronic unquenching dispair for someone to come back for them and find them and love them and need them, but without someone like you or me, that someone will never come and I just broke down and cried Madeline.
I realize that I don't have the most perfect family, because I have no children of my own, yet I have a family of brothers and sisters who love me and I have nieces and nephews who may one day be able to look in on me and perhaps I have these children right now, too to look after, in someway from halfway around the world. These children, will never know and play with their cousins who have probably been killed, nor be stroked by the loving, trusted and truly caring hand of a parents who have died because of the war or because of illnesses. This is what makes their dispair and desperation so chronic and unending, there is no resolve in their emotional needs. There emotions are in a frozen state of expectation for something that may not come to them or possibly they have given up hope completely. It isn't hopeless if they do finally see that someone will soon be coming for them, at least least through aid and finally a human touch that lends the ultimate in emotional and spiritual support. Madeline, my life has changed since a few days ago. The photos of the children that you sent me stole my heart! I have a new sense of love for your orphans. I know you 'll count on me to be right there beside you when you need me. ~Carmen
Remember this: "Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously"
- 2 Corinthians 9:6.
A song for the children of Liberia, Africa from a friend of many years (Carmen) to the precious children and elderly of Liberia, Africa through Divine Mercy Inc. (To turn off sound click the II Pause button.)
