Inspiration

If ever I need something to help me keep picking them up and putting them down, there's this story:

 

http://www.wfmynews2.com/news/local_state/local_article.aspx?storyid=47045

 

This woman's boyfriend (and her) abused this child.  This "man" raped the child.  The child was less than a year and a half old.  How do you rape a 17 month old baby?  What kind of monster does that?  What kind of monster lets that happen?

 

My niece just turned 2.  I have a nephew about to turn 2.  I look at those children and think of the kiddos who have to live their childhoods in absolute hell.  That's just wrong.  It needs to stop.

 

Child Advocates says it stops here, with us.  They put grownups into these children's lives that these kids can believe in.  Often times it's the first grownup they've ever met who isn't destroying their lives.  Often times it's the first grownup who actually shows love and care to these kids and pays attention to them.

 

Child Advocates says "no more abuse".  Their volunteers stand in the breach between the children and the abusers.  Their volunteers spend hours in court and researching relatives' homes and foster homes and they pour out their time to help these kids gain new footing in a safe, loving, caring environment.  These volunteers say "no more" to the abuse so that these children can grow up and learn how to give that same safe, loving, caring environment to their own children and not pass on the legacy of abuse to the next generation.

 

I'm running, because in the shadow of these volunteers who do so much, I have to do something.

Help me support these volunteers.  Visit www.childadvocates.org and donate.  I'll figure out what the online donation process is through the HP Houston Marathon site and give details there later.