Today was our last full day at the Sunflower Family Center, we leave early tomorrow morning for some downtime in Lusaka before we begin our journey home on Wednesday. I had planned a long blog about our 3 hour Mass of Thanksgiving today and the goodbye party that the children hosted full of dancing, crying, singing, and hugs...but something else struck me deeper. At the end of the goodbye party, The children were taking turns sharing words of thanks and encouragement with us. During this time Gibson shared some of his writing with us. A few days ago I was able to look through some of Gibson's writing and was struck by his depth and maturity. He has a God given talent in writing and is reading as much as he can to help himself grow as a writer. His dream is to write a book. I'm leaving him my copy of
The Fault In Our Stars that I read on the plane ride here and hope to send him more Harry Potter books (he only has one of the seven). Gibson's words spoke to me today. I asked him for permission and would now like to share with you what he shared with us.
During my time at Sunflower Family Center I discovered that life gives the great hope when we come together with people we never expected to meet in lifetime. The love shared can never be compared to any price because we were brought together to be united and leave like brothers and sisters. And we made it with the support of many couraged people from Belgium, the land of our father, France, United States, and Spain. These made us know what we can do to the world and not what the world can do for us, by strongly supporting our education.
This trip has given me great hope after coming together with people I never expected to meet in my lifetime.
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