I get asked from time to time why I felt the need to start Forget-Me-Not Children's Homes in Liberia. I tell them it started with a Diamond.
Diamond was a little boy with cp in Liberia who I had set out to adopt. Only he passed away from malaria before we could bring him home. I never thought of myself as someone who could parent a child of special needs. For reasons not known to me- I was being led to adopt him though. He was to be our Brice Diamond. His heart gave out after a battle with cerebral malaria.Like so many children in Liberia- he was abandoned- unwanted due to his special needs. So many children waiting for an opportunity to be loved like him. I may have never held him in my arms but I did in my heart. He is there still. And in every child I advocate to help like him.
This was a song I dedicated to him when he passed. I think it is befitting to all children abandoned and waiting still....
We All want to make our place in this world
We All want our voices to be heard
Everyone wants a chance to be someone
We all have dreams we need to dream
But sweeter than any star you can reach
Is when you reach and find youve found someone
You'll hold this world's most priceless thing
The greatest gift this life can bring
If you can look back and know
You were Loved.
You were loved by someone
Touched by someone
Held by someone
Meant something to someone
Loved somebody
Touched somebody's heart along the way
You can look back and say... You were loved!
You can have Diamonds in your hand
Have all the riches in the land
Without love do you really have anything
When someone cares that youre alive
When someone finds their world in your eyes
Then you'll know youve find all you need
Youll hold this world's most priceless prize
The sweetest treasure in this world
If you can look back and say... You were loved!
You were loved by someone
Touched by someone
Held by someone
Meant something to someone
Loved somebody
Touched somebodys heart along the way
You can look back and say...
You were Loved!
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