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I feel love so much love and I want to give more…more than I have. Here’s why….

Just before putting up this blog post and while eating dinner with my kids, I thought to myself how lucky and blessed I am to have my kids with me…laughing, chatting, praying, singing and doing everything together…..even when I am overwhelmed with their activities combined with mine, I still think I am lucky and blessed.

I thought of how unlucky the parents of the Chibok girls are. They have lived more than two years without seeing their children. They have no idea whether their daughters are alive, in good health or maybe just had a meal…..no idea at all. All they see is that blank space in the dark and they cannot understand it.

I thought of the parents who danced joyfully at the thanksgiving held last Sunday, their eyes filled with tears of joy as they could not hold themselves; express freely the excitement of seeing, touching and holding their once lost daughters. As though they came from the land of the dead. 

I thought of the dark skinned girls wearing new clean clothes….21 of them and the grand child too, crying in thanksgiving that they have been freed from the bondage, the rage of BH, the hunger, starvation, abuse endless torments of what they could not understand. “I just wanted to take my exams”.

My thoughts are endless. They remain in my head and reflect in actions and in my words. The other side of motherhood focuses on the fact that I will always have these thoughts in my head because  I love, I am love, I am a mother and I can change the world.

Stay strong!

Ciao.