lesson: learned.

i had a video with another post uploaded...but something was wrong with the video. it was getting hung at four seconds. so i'll fix it...and repost.

for now...something else on my mind.

my roommate from college, emily. is married to jon. they adopted a son from moldova last year. his name is dennis. their blog can be found to the right. "the merryman family".

well, jon is working with an organization called sweet sleep. and i knew he was leaving the country for several days. and he posted something about the work they are doing on his facebook page. so i checked it out.

http://www.sweetsleep.blogspot.com/

here is what http://www.sweetsleep.org/ says about its purpose: "Sweet Sleep is a faith-based nonprofit organization that exists to share God’s love by providing beds to the world’s orphaned and abandoned children."

i was in the dmv today for at least thirty minutes. waiting. and so i began reading the blog site for sweet sleep on my phone. about three minutes in, i was crying all over the woman next to me.

i was sitting here a few minutes ago, making a list of things i need from target. and i was probably up to somewhere around...one hundred dollars. and i thought about the blog. and how i should add it to my friends list. so i went there again.

"casa de copii" that is the post that broke me. the eighteenth picture down.



the caption reads, "back to lilian! i am so in love with this boy! i did not want to leave him there. he loved human touch. whenever you would touch him, he would lean into your touch."

re-read that. if you can bear it.

"he loved human touch. whenever you would touch him, he would lean into your touch."

this little boy. in an orphanage. yearning for touch. the touch. that's all. just touch.

not mossimo cotton tissue t-shirts. not cookies. not starbucks coffee. not sandals. not lipgloss. not anything that can be bought at target.

no, instead...just touch.

i need my priorities straightened. thank you jon and emily. and everyone at sweet sleep.

lesson: learned.