If you can dream it, you can do it
It all began after watching a disturbing advertisement on television one evening before bed time. You know, the typical ones with crying sad faces of young innocent lives being crushed and souls, along with bodies, being starved and abused. Afterward, I looked at Hanna and she looked at me and we both saw we had tears welling up in our eyes. I tucked her and her brother into bed and we prayed for all the hungry sad children of the world.
The next morning, I woke her up for school and she sat straight up in bed and said “Mom I had a dream that you and I helped the poor sad kids”. I said “That’s nice honey, how?” She then said “we gave them stuff to do art with and we helped them mommy.” She went on to tell me how they were so sad in their lives that they needed to do art to help them with their sadness. Also that if they did some really good art maybe they could sell it to help themselves or their families so they could buy food and clothes.
I was so choked up and shocked that such a small child, she was 5 at the time, could come up with something like that...or dream something that was so moving. So all day long I kept pondering the idea and it appeared to me that Hanna was right: Having the tools to be “creative” and create something out of the pain and uncertainty of their life could help them overcome some of the hurt and sadness. Perhaps even giving some hope. If the artwork was interesting enough, maybe we could even encourage others to buy it to further assist the children and keep the creativity and hopefully “healing” going.
Then I thought to myself, I can’t make this happen...I don’t know how, I don’t have the tools, I don’t have the time. Then I remembered my dear friend Owen Glenn. Owen, being born and partly raised in Calcutta, India knows what it’s like to only have one pair of shoes and one pair of pants and to live in a risky environment.
So I contacted him and told him of Hanna’s Dream and he said “Robbie, the Lord works in mysterious ways, you need to get moving on this and send easels, crayons, paint in tubes, brushes, paper etc...and we will send it abroad to needy children. You see, Owen’s Foundation adopts villages in India and abroad.
May God bless you!
Robin Lyon Cini
The next morning, I woke her up for school and she sat straight up in bed and said “Mom I had a dream that you and I helped the poor sad kids”. I said “That’s nice honey, how?” She then said “we gave them stuff to do art with and we helped them mommy.” She went on to tell me how they were so sad in their lives that they needed to do art to help them with their sadness. Also that if they did some really good art maybe they could sell it to help themselves or their families so they could buy food and clothes.
I was so choked up and shocked that such a small child, she was 5 at the time, could come up with something like that...or dream something that was so moving. So all day long I kept pondering the idea and it appeared to me that Hanna was right: Having the tools to be “creative” and create something out of the pain and uncertainty of their life could help them overcome some of the hurt and sadness. Perhaps even giving some hope. If the artwork was interesting enough, maybe we could even encourage others to buy it to further assist the children and keep the creativity and hopefully “healing” going.
Then I thought to myself, I can’t make this happen...I don’t know how, I don’t have the tools, I don’t have the time. Then I remembered my dear friend Owen Glenn. Owen, being born and partly raised in Calcutta, India knows what it’s like to only have one pair of shoes and one pair of pants and to live in a risky environment.
So I contacted him and told him of Hanna’s Dream and he said “Robbie, the Lord works in mysterious ways, you need to get moving on this and send easels, crayons, paint in tubes, brushes, paper etc...and we will send it abroad to needy children. You see, Owen’s Foundation adopts villages in India and abroad.
May God bless you!
Robin Lyon Cini
