Recently I've been starting to feel like the name of my blog - "Love and the School of Law" - was no longer as fitting as I though it would be when I created the blog my 1L year. I thought I would be using it mostly for wedding planning and law school-related stuff, but that's just not what happened :) Seeing as I'm about to graduate law school and begin my career as an attorney, and because I haven't even written about school much, I decided to change the name of my blog!
Welcome to One Missing Drop! All of my previous posts have been imported, so really the only change is the name and URL location :)
I've always loved this quote from Mother Teresa:
"We ourselves often feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But even the ocean would be less because of that one missing drop"
Sometimes we feel like we don't matter. We volunteer with kids who are pulled into a gang or prostitution. We love our children fiercely and make countless sacrifices for them, but they turn to the wrong crowd. We bust our asses at work to get paid less than a living wage, or worse, be fired.
Life is hard and messy and it hurts. I promise you though, my friends, that you matter. The teenagers you mentor will remember you cared for them when they are at their darkest. Your kids still love you, even if they're making bad choices and they really suck at showing their love sometimes.
You might be the drop in the ocean that saved someone's life.
While DIY projects and gluten free recipes might not exactly fall under the "one missing drop" theme, haha, I still want to be reminded of everyone's importance on a daily basis. This is especially true when I think of the families of my foster daughter and foster sisters. Sometimes I really dislike their parents and wish they'd just go away so our kids can have permanency. This is not fair. Despite their mistakes, they are still people - daughters, brothers, aunts. Someone needs them, people love them, and the world would be less without them.
The ocean would less without that one missing drop.
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