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Hey team!
Today’s mission is for Ellen, from central Florida.
She was suggested to us by Peg, one of our members. This was one of the toughest blogs for me to personally get through so far.
This is what Peg had to say: “She’s a very warm-hearted, kind and generous woman who has had more than her share of hard times, and she’s really scared and despairing right now. Please, she needs encouragement, and perhaps some practical help or guidance toward resources she can use. She must feel so desperately alone and abandoned!”
Ellen lost her husband and mother in the same month a couple years back, and has since been struggling financially, physically and emotionally.
The post we are commenting on this week is titled, “I Give Up” – and it broke my heart. She is close to losing her home because she cannot afford her mortgage or utility bills, and she is both sick and recovering from a triple lumbar fusion surgery that has left her almost entirely immobile. She has car trouble, and lost the two people that usually drive her to doctor appointments.
She is doing what she can to sell jewelry, but no one has been purchasing it lately, and her extended family isn’t coming around to help her out with the little things like driving her places or cutting her grass.
“I just need someone to come and put their arms around me and tell me it’s going to be OK and then help me to make it so, not by tearing me down as one friend has done, but by helping me to do things as I see they can be done to help, someone to encourage me to believe in me, just a little bit, so that I CAN do things, can succeed, can even thing positively again. I don’t need someone to tell me all that I am doing or have done wrong. God know I know all of that. I need someone to just see ME and love ME, as I am, to believe in ME.”
Guys, let’s please do what we can for Ellen – encourage her, support her, love her and be the family that she doesn’t have.
You can comment on her blogpost here:http://jemyl.livejournal.com/157796.html
Time to drop a Love Bomb, team!
Lauren
P.S. A couple of people have personally asked me recently if there is a way for them to donate or give gifts to the people we Love Bomb, so I am including Ellen’s paypal account. This is not the crux of Love Bomb, nor am I asking for you to support her financially. I am only including this for those of you who have asked for a way to give in additional ways. It is jemylfla@yahoo.com – Thank you for understanding.
