Everyday I’m vividly reminded of why Imprint Hope was sent to Uganda… some days the reminders are so subtle…like a beautiful mother-son interaction in the therapy room, a husband and wife resolving a conflict to better serve their child, a child with a disability smiling for the first time (I know this is hard to […]
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It was a sunny Saturday at Imprint Hope’s Center. The morning had begun with multiple lightbulbs exploding. However, small power surges are quite common for us on this side of the power grid, so none of us took this quite seriously. And then small little things began to happen. Sockets began to blow up and
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It was 3:30 am and I was awaken by Imprint Hope’s House Manager…Clare, can you come and check on Gift. I rush downstairs and find all of the mothers at our center praying over little Gift who has a raging 105.7 fever. She had been vomiting all night and looked incredibly pale and dehydrated. We
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Surviving. The explicit significance of this word can be interpreted in various ways. To some, it could mean ‘surviving’ a long week at work. To others, it could be \’surviving’ an intense run or workout. And still others, ‘surviving’ could mean living amidst vivid memories of pain and trauma. To four year old, Rachel, ‘surviving\’ means being locked
Whenever I ride rollercoasters, I always close my eyes. The twists, turns, ups and downs, which I know are ahead frighten me, but watching with eyes wide open terrifies me even more. I know their is nothing I can do to prevent the drop, twist or turn that lies ahead, so I try to imagine
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Just the other night, sleepy Hassan comes creeping into my room with tears streaming down his face, saying ‘Mom, I had a bad dream.’ Recognizing that Hassan has a long history of nightmares, I stopped everything I was doing, dried his tears and asked ‘what did you dream about?’ With a tear-filled voice Hassan replied,
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I recently began fostering a little boy named Hassan. Upon introducing him to unfamiliar faces, many people inquire about the large scar on his forehead. \”Where did he get that scar” they ask. Reminiscing about the day Hassan fell 6 feet and cracked open his forehead and his miraculous recovery from a Traumatic Brain Injury,
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Growing up, the word missions to me was the exciting concept of a month long adventure to a foreign country, something to check off my bucket list, the picture for my Facebook profile, or a story to share so I felt less guilty about my self-absorbed life in America. In college, I went on a
According to Webster’s dictionary, a dreamer is defined as one who has ideas or conceives projects regarded as impractical. Someone whose plans are not based in reality. Well lets just say that if I had a nickel for every time I have caught myself dreaming up some wild vision for our world or wondering what
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I had lost all hope… These are the words of one father, whose wife had recently run off, secondary to the fact that their child had disabilities. He was a peasant farmer and lived in a six by ten foot mud hut. His precious daughter, Shakira greatly struggles to feed herself, bathe, sit in a
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