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Monday, February 14, 2005

Gifts

What is the greatest gift of all? Is there one single thing that eclipses all others? Is it a thing, an emotion? A feeling, perhaps. What if I had it in my power to give the ones I care about the most priceless of all things? Can one give freedom, as easy as one gives a warm smile to a stranger? I have given amazing things. I have stopped, with a touch of my hands, terrible pain when a friend had a relapse of Multiple Sclerosis. I have given sensation back to a friend's left hand that had none for several years. I have even stopped a constant pain that had lasted two months in a friends' shoulder. But to give true freedom, that is something wholly different. I was given freedom once, and to the one who gave me this I owe a debt that I cannot possibly repay. It is impossible to express my gratitude. All I can do is pass on that gift. Freedom, I'm learning, is not an easy thing to give. People often suspect help. It is, then, something that cannot be haphazardly given, it is something one must reach for. Until you peak up over the maze, you cannot possibly know where the prize waits. All I can do is offer, hope, and wait for you to take that first step into a larger world.

Sunday, February 06, 2005


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