“For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them”
– Matthew 18:20
They only hope for another week or two with sweet Layla Grace.
I know, that’s a pretty bold subject line. But I wanted to get your attention. Just for a minute. This post is for Layla Grace. I have never met her, nor her family.
Yet I know that she’s an Angel laying in wait. (Feel free to read that link, the bad news gets worse.)
Her parents have no choice but to pray for peace for her. To watch her go to heaven, and pray even more that she passes peacefully.
That’s harsh. For me to even type it, I feel guilty and … just horrid.
I don’t think it’s fair. It’s NOT fair!
For a parent to have to bury or even plan a burial … for their child. Maybe I simply can’t accept it. Well, I know I can’t accept it. It’s a very foreign idea to me. Maybe one day, I’ll have to face this fear. And I pray to God anytime I read stories anything remotely close to Layla Grace’s, that I don’t and won’t ever have to deal with it.
It is cancer. It doesn’t deserve a capital letter, I won’t give it one.
Joie and I started our site last year, known to all as NetWorkingWitches.com, and we did toy with different ideas of which approach we would be making for us, our site, and our members. We ended up here, with our blog. And it’s a very cozy place for us. We don’t ask anything of our readers, well other than to read, visit, and leave us comments. Get to know us, and vice versa.
We have some sort of rule between each other, it’s unspoken. And that rule is when someone needs a lift, a hug, a prayer, and even money – we’re there the absolute best we can be. Blogging For A Cause.
I’m asking you please, think about it, and perhaps donate a few dollars to Layla Grace’s family. Yes, I’m asking for money, NO do not send it to me. There are a few ways you can do this, if you so choose.
The first I’m going to tell you about is one I got in my email, and is also how I found out about precious Layla Grace.
Simply FaBOWlous
Accessories For Mini Divas
Begining March 1st, 2010, for the entire YEAR, they will donate $5 for each hat sold to Layla Grace and her family.
The donations from Simply FaBOWlous will be sent via PayPal donations at the end of each month (through the year.)
You might be asking why a hat? Layla Grace’s Mom review this very hat for her in 2009 before she became ill. White, with a pink peony crochet hat.
Available in infant size as well.
Update: You can also purchase the white head bands with the pink peony to help Layla Grace and her family! I have already ordered two. One for my daughter, and one for myself.
To date they have sent the family $360, I’m sure all of us can bind together to send even more.
Another way is directly, you can also read more by visiting http://laylagrace.org/
If you would like to send a direct donation, you can send it to:
FightForLayla [AT] gmail [DOT] com
You can also follow updates on Layla Grace on Twitter, and Facebook. Each at their own link, respectively.
The Marsh Family can be reached at: the email above
or12320 Barker Cypress Rd.
Ste. 600 #264
Cypress, TX 77429Donations to Layla’s medical expenses can be made at any Wells Fargo bank. Ask a manager to make a deposit to the Layla Grace Marsh donation account. You may also donate via PayPal here: http://bit.ly/layladonate
Please support @LittleDivaTutus‘ @LaylaGrace fundraiser! Read her heartbreaking story: http://www.littledivatutus.com/catalog.htm?item=271
PLS RT – Help A 2 Year Old w/ Stage 4 neuroblastoma only 1-2 weeks left w/ her family. http://tinyurl.com/ydamv88
I lost my best friend to cancer she was my age 34 – she left two little girls behind. The bad part about cancer is that there is no way you can just accept cancer – you fight. You spend your time fighting, trying new treatments, hurting, worrying. It doesn’t let you be you- to walk your last days free. It doesn’t let her Mommy and Daddy enjoy her being carefree as a child should be.
cancer is brutal and heartless and you don’t know just how much until it robs the life of someone you love.
Prayers and thoughts and love and any money I can pitch in and wishes of peace to Layla and her family.
I don’t even know what to say.I cannot imagine the strength it takes to do that every day.Although knowing gives them a chance to accept every second,I think it has to be harder then anything else.How do you hold your child and know and not lose your mind? May God help them to get through this and make it easier on Layla.
Why is it that there are so many horrible people in the world, killing, hurting,etc, and they continue to walk the earth, then we have the completely innocent angels who get the raw end of the deal, it’s just not fair. My eyes welled with tears reading your post, if I lost one of my kids I would be an empty shell.
I am so sorry to hear about the passing of Layla Grace, and am beyond words that tell how I feel for her family. I cannot begin to imagine the raw pain of losing a child. She really is an angel. My thoughts and prayers are with her family…