SADA and all it stood for made my boiler go on. It lit me up and I shone from the inside out. It lightened my load and the world stopped for me as if in a time warp, and the adventure in the mountains was ALL that went on. The time at the chalet was magical. What the children gave to me was gold, was immeasurable.
I learnt much from them all, of their gratitude, of their constant ability to smile in the face of adversity and hardship, of their incredible ability to bond with one another where there was no peer pressure or stigma to bare.
It really was something special as these children stood, sat, lay or leant on podiums to get their bronze, silver and gold awards. The look of inexplicable joy written across their faces will forever be etched in my mind.
I saw many amazing young heroes smile constantly whilst struggling to move across a room, call my name, or swallow food. I have laughed with them and been so exceedingly proud of them as they stepped so massively out of their comfort zones, trusting the team whilst hurtling down 800 meters of luge track, parapenting off mountains, cascading over water falls and grass carting down hills. WHAT did I feel? I felt fulfilled and like nothing else mattered.
This was part of my purpose in life, to edify them, to lift them up to help them to see their beauty, to build their confidences so that they might conquer.
To see them relax in a place of freedom, to watch them fly through the air when they may never have walked, to over hear them say 'I’m home’, these things are what made it such a privilege. Yes this is where I first learn’t what it meant to have my boiler go on, where I found myself living out my passion and realised my passion was in my purpose.
You ask me how it felt to be part of their worlds for a brief moment and lift them to a place of grandeur as their confidences grew and they stood taller.
It felt an utter privilege ………………..and has been an undeniable blessing in my life.
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