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Dear Catholic Weekly readers,
'Thank you'
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| 1 August, 2010 |
I would just like to express my sincere thanks to the incredible generosity shown by the Catholic community to the Help Talaya Appeal.
Talaya’s parents are absolutely humbled and I believe in shock by the generosity of so many people both those who know them and more by all those strangers from around the
country and even the globe who gave so freely and generously to help their beautiful daughter.
To date readers of The Catholic Weekly have raised more than $17,000 and we are expecting that the total will reach $100,000 soon, which means we will have raised enough money to cover the cost of the operation and to assist in her recovery.
What started as a silent prayer in the hearts of some parents and a child was heard and answered by God through us.
As a friend who helped organise the appeal it has been a gift that I will treasure being a part of such a wonderful thing. Witnessing and experiencing God’s work in action.
There has been something about Talaya’s story that reminded people that we are all precious and we are all connected. And from a place deep within them, the place that is love (God) they felt the pull to help.
I have watched children and adults alike be called to action from this place within. I used the word “strangers” in the paragraph above as a way of describing people who have never met Talaya, who haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing her kindness, generosity, humour and enthusiasm for life.
But I have come to learn through witnessing this all take place, that because God is everywhere and he is in us, it is in this place of love, this place of God within, that our spirits are connected and we are one.
So in the words of St Francis “For it is in giving we receive”, that warm tingly feeling you had inside when you gave to the appeal or prayed for Talaya, was her spirit touching yours through God and therefore there are no “strangers” here.
I know you will keep Talaya, her family and her medical team in your prayers for her operation on August 4.
God Bless and Namaste (which means “That which is of God in me greets that which is of God in you”).
Helen Hanslow-Vaughan,
Ballina, NSW
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